Then years ago, the Art Institute of Chicago purchased a sculpture by Gauguin called The Faun. At the time of its purchase it was thought to be a major discovery — the potentially museum's greatest acquisition in 20 years — as the work was supposedly Gauguin's first ceramic piece, and its whereabouts have been unknown since the late 1880s. It turns out that the artwork is most likely a well researched modern forgery produced by the Greenhalgh family (also known as The Bolton Forgers), whom recently have been sentenced on other art fraud charges in England.