Provenance
how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
by Laney Salisbury
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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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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
2010, Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Books
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Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
2009, Penguin Press
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