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Provenance

how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art

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An edition of Provenance (2009)

Provenance

how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art

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A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain, John Drewe, and his sometimes unwitting accomplices.Chief among those was the struggling artist John Myatt, a vulnerable single father who was manipulated by Drewe into becoming a prolific art forger. Once Myatt had painted the pieces, the real fraud began. Drewe managed to infiltrate the archives of the upper echelons of the British art world in order to fake the provenance of Myatt's forged pieces, hoping to irrevocably legitimize the fakes while effectively rewriting art history.The story stretches from London to Paris to New York,...

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2009, Penguin Press
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2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.16/3, B
Library of Congress
ND1662.M93 S26 2009, ND1662.M93S26 2009

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL23020497M
Internet Archive
provenancehowcon00sali
ISBN 13
9781594202209
LCCN
2009003552
OCLC/WorldCat
276819734
Library Thing
8154597
Goodreads
6361913

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