ISTANBUL 

Italian police on Wednesday seized 21 works attributed to Salvador Dali from an exhibition in the city of Parma after questions arose about their authenticity.

“The works in question — including tapestries, drawings, engravings, and various objects — were being circulated and exhibited in the current Parma exhibition, and 21 of them were falsely attributed to master artist Salvador Dali,” a police statement said.

The Spanish organization Fundacion Gala – Salvador Dali, which manages the artist’s intellectual property, raised concerns about whether the works were genuine. Some of the pieces had previously been shown in a museum in Rome, but early checks found anomalies.

The pieces were on display at Dali, Between Art and Myth at Palazzo Tarasconi, which had only been open for a few days before the seizure. Police from the Carabinieri Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Rome carried out the confiscation under a judge’s order.

The investigation is being coordinated by Rome prosecutors.