French Museum Discovers Disturbing Truth About Its Collection

Visitors look at the painting "Le clocher de Ria" (R) (The bell tower of Ria), next to "Portrait d'un inconnu" (L) (Portrait of a stranger) at the museum dedicated to French painter Etienne Terrus, in Elne (Elna), on April 28, 2018. Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty Images

A museum in the South of France that is dedicated to the work of Etienne Terrus, a close friend of Henri Matisse, has discovered that more than half of its collection is fake.

Experts found that 82 of the 140 paintings attributed to the Catalan artist at the Terrus museum in Elne, near the Spanish border, were not actually painted by him.