One in ten privately sold modern artworks in India may be forgeries, Financial Times reports

The Financial Times reported on 19 August 2026 that as many as one in ten modern works sold privately in India could be forgeries, calling fakes the biggest problem facing the South Asian art market. ARTnews reported the same day that the region's boom has brought a parallel surge in forgeries. Private sales lack the cataloguing and provenance, the documented ownership chain, standard at auction.