The work, known as Salmon Life Giving Spawn, was recently hanging at the Ontario Legislature building and had characteristics investigators say link it to one of the Norval Morrisseau art fraud rings.
Gary Lamont had pleaded guilty to forgery and defrauding the public above $5,000 for signing artist Norval Morrisseau’s name to fraudulent works of art.
Five of the eight accused in the Norval Morrisseau art fraud ring made a brief court appearance in Thunder Bay; criminal organization charges are expected to be withdrawn next month
Police in Ontario charged eight people earlier this month with churning out thousands of forged Norval Morrisseau paintings worth tens of millions of dollars