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title: "Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art"
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# Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

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- **What is this?** Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by laney salisburyaly sujo
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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

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## Customer Reviews

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    well written and thoroughly researched
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2022*

Good read with plenty of details of the provenance fraud. It would have been curious to know more details about Drewe but … the truth about pathological liars is buried Under lies.

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    Excellent read!
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2012*

Published in 2009 after the death of one of the couple of authors this in depth presentation of an extraordinary series of art and documentation  forgeries ever.Years of research were required to effectively present the deeds or misdeeds of John Drewe who seem to become the characters he pretended to be - a physicist, an heir to a remarkable art collection, a Mossad agent, a consultant to the British Atomic Energy Commission and the list goes on. All the while cleverly documenting and selling  "modern masterpieces" to the leading dealers in London and elsewhere.John Myatt - failed painter is swept into this whirlwind of activity and doing a reasonably good job of creating masterpieces by Ben Nicholson, Roger Bissiere, Braques and Giacometti, Graham Sutherland et al.Drewe prepared an "authentic" provenance for each work and then used "runners" to present and sell them to the likes of Leslie Waddington, Daniel Stern, Peter Nahum among many others. Upwards of 200 works were made and sold.Drewe parlayed each meeting and relationship into a probable sale.Eventually he was caught and convicted but it took hard work, chance and luck to bring him down. He was never repentant and was also not out to embarrass the art world. Rather his success was aided by the lax standards where greed is involved.Although it is a tale related to the modern art world it seems more a story of the disintegration of moral and ethical standards in our world.  The authors simply and clearly describe the facts and the events but the take away for me seems much more tragic and universal.

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    A well told tale of forgers, con artists, and art fraud.
  

*by W***M on Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021*

An absorbing look at the world of art museums and galleries, the importance of archives, art scams and frauds, one very talented painter, an almost revolutionary con man, and the long-running crime that had a lot of experts fooled.  A book in which at least one criminal is so likeable we root for him and another is so detestable that readers may actually enjoy detesting him.  It gets a little technical in places--a little caught up in the evidence--but on the whole it's a very good story very well told.

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