DELHI, India - One of India's most popular artists says
he visited an exhibition of his works in Delhi only to
discover many of the paintings were fakes. S.H. Raza, 85,
said he arrived for the inauguration of the exhibit at
the Dhoomimal Gallery and found the majority of the paint-
ings were forgeries, The Times of London reported. Gallery
owners Uday and Uma Jain said some works were donated for
the exhibit by Raza, while the 30 paintings alleged to be
fakes were donated by the artist's nephew, Z.H. Zafri. The
Jains apologized to the artist and said the exhibit was
shut down half an hour after Raza expressed his doubts.
"When I reached the gallery and started looking at the
canvases on the walls, I was stunned," said Raza, who is
suing his nephew. "As I moved from one canvas to the
other, I realized that the works were just not mine, they
were all fakes," he said. "I will turn 86 next month. At
this stage of my life, this was the last thing I wanted
to do -- grace an exhibition of my own fake paintings."