MADRID, SPAIN.-Spanish police are holding a man accused of trying to sell a painting attributed to Catalonian painter Joan Miró. The title of the painting is “General Marino 1933.” The police found the work to be false and was offered for sale for around 7 million euros.

Teodoro Ramos, chief of police of the Salamanca office in Madrid, stated that the name of the man accused is Alejandro H.L., 24 years. He organized exhibitions to attract buyers for the work.

According to Joan Punyent Miró, grandson of the artist, the false work is not a copy of any of the works by the artist, but a “collage of different Miró motives such as moons, rings, and stars. Punyent added that the work was carelessly made, “one can see the traces of the hairs of the brush, when Miró painted he diluted the paint to give it a much more liquid texture.” He added that the colors used in this false work (orange, lilac and blue) do not correspond to those used by Miró in that year of 1933.