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Art forgery is the creation and sale of works of art which are intentionally falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler.
Thomas Patrick Keating (1 March 1917 – 12 February 1984) was an English artist, art restorer and art forger.Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, [1] he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope—ranging from the Renaissance (Holbein, Titian, Tintoretto) to Modernism, Expressionism and ...
His forgeries were discovered in late 1988 after Hiro Yamagata (artist) found a fake work of his for sale in a Beverly Hills gallery. [3] [5] [6] Police found 250 forgeries during a search of Tetro's home in April 1989 and he was accused of conspiring with art dealer Mark Henry Sawicki to defraud four other art dealers by selling them forgeries ...
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than ...
The extraordinary real-life story of a friendship between a reformed ex-art forger and the police officer who arrested him has emerged in Jeffrey Archer's latest crime novel An Eye For An Eye, out ...
Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; April 14, 1906 [citation needed] – December 11, 1976) was a famed Hungarian-born painter and art forger.It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world.
Wolfgang Fischer was born 4 February 1951 in Höxter, Germany [10] [11] and grew up in Geilenkirchen, Germany.His father was an art restorer and muralist. According to his own statements, Beltracchi first copied a Pablo Picasso painting when he was 14 years old.
The Art of Forgery is a Documentary film about Wolfgang Beltracchi and the biggest Art Forgery scandal in post war Germany, 90 min., started in German theaters in March 2014 and had its world premier at the Montreal World Film Festival. [5] [6] The film will be distributed worldwide by Global Screen. [7]