Japanese Artist Sells "Invisible Paintings"

The Japanese artist sold "invisible paintings," claiming they were a reflection of the soul, but in reality, they were empty canvases. The 41-year-old Yukio Tanaka called himself an avant-garde genius and claimed that his art was only accessible to the "enlightened." Collectors paid millions of yen for canvases with fake certificates. The fraud was exposed when a gallery in Osaka attempted to sell one of the works to an Arab sheikh - an X-ray revealed the canvas was empty. Following the scandal, Tanaka closed his studio but is already offering "invisible sculptures of silence".