Six Warhols are declared fakes

Six Brillo boxes in the Andy Warhol collection at a Swedish museum are fakes made in 1990, three years after the famed pop artist died, the museum says.

Warhol created the original Brillo boxes, replicas of Brillo soap pad cartons, as part of a 1964 exhibition displaying artwork resembling supermarket products.

The Moderna Museet in Stockholm said it had investigated the authenticity of its six wooden Brillo boxes, donated by its for- mer head, Pontus Hulten, in 1995, after a Swedish newspaper claimed they were all copies.

The museum said in a statement that the boxes would “most likely be de- registered from the collection, and catalogued as archive material” unless the Warhol board reaches another conclusion.