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| Picture No | 10222005 |
| Date | 1938 |
| Description | The 'Venus de Gonon', 1938. |
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The 'Venus de Gonon' statue, which was unearthed by a farmer in the Loire district of France in 1938. At first it was believed to be an ancient Greek sculpture. Then Franco Cremonese, a local sculptor, claimed to have created it as a deliberate hoax.
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| Source | The Sphere. 17 December 1938, page 482 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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