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Jean-Pierre Raphael Schecroun (17 January 1929 – 17 July 1991) was a French painter and art forger who made forgeries of work of modern masters, including Picasso and Braque. [1] Schecroun was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar on 17 January 1929. He was arrested for forgery in 1962.
In 2022 Henty contributed inspiration and information for the ‘Daniel Hegarty’ art forger character at the centre of Peter James’ 18th ‘Roy Grace’ novel Picture You Dead. [1] Henty and James met in 2016 when James was researching the non-fiction work Death Comes Knocking he co-authored with former commander of Brighton and Hove police ...
John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century". [1] After his conviction, Myatt was able to continue profiting from his forgery career through his creation of "genuine fakes". [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Art forgery (3 C, 11 P) C. Counterfeit consumer goods (1 C, 19 ...
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.
The Art of the Faker — a book about art forgery by Frank Arnau; The Counterfeiters — a movie inspired by the Nazi counterfeiting scheme, Operation Bernhard; F for Fake — an Orson Welles documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory; Fake Britain — a BBC television series about counterfeiting and its effects on consumers
The Orson Welles documentary F for Fake concerns both art and literary forgery. For the movie, Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an "authorized" autobiography of Howard Hughes that had been revealed to be a hoax. While forgery is the ostensible subject of the film, it also concerns art, film ...
The woman in black, the leering coupler, "in a nun's costume", [2]: 224 could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, "wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves", [2]: 172 has been identified as a self portrait of the artist; [3] there is a resemblance with the painter in Vermeer's The Art of Painting.