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Summary:

Recounts the activities of John Drewe, who manipulated struggling artist John Myatt and other unwitting accomplices to become prolific art forgers whose works Drewe successfully passed off as legitimate pieces.

Table of Contents:

• "I want a nice Matisse"
• Canvas greed
• Art for sale
• Crossing the line
• Mibus wants his money back
• Self-made man
• Wreckers of civilization
• At the easel
• The fine art of provenance
• Full speed ahead
• After Giacometti
• A sinister message
• The bookworm
• The paper trail
• Falling off a log
• The bow tie
• Into the whirlwind
• Standing nude
• The pond man
• Myatt's blue period

• The chameleon
• A loaded briefcase
• The Auschwitz concert
• Extreme prudence
• We're not alone
• A slow burn
• The art squad
• The macaroni caper
• Nicked
• Aladdin's cave
• The fox
• Drewe descending
• South
• The trial.

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Author/Creator:

Salisbury, Laney

Contributors:

Sujo, Aly

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art [by Salisbury, L.]

Subjects:

Myatt, John, 1945-

Art forgers — England — Biography

Drewe, John, 1948-

Impostors and imposture — England — Biography

Art forgers

Impostors and imposture

England

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-316) and index.

Physical Description:

xv, 327 pages ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

ND1662.M93 S26 2009

ISBNs:

9781594202209
1594202206

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009003552

OCLC Numbers:

276819734