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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.
Beltracchi, together with his wife Helene, sold forgeries of alleged works by famous artists, including Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger, and Kees van Dongen. Though he was found guilty for forging 14 works of art that sold for a combined $45m (£28.6m), he claims to have faked "about 50" artists. [2]
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 ...
Over 2,100 forgeries, also targeting Warhol, Picasso, ... 13 Famous Art Heists. Fake artworks attributed to more than 30 famed artists were seized in raids carried out in Italy, Spain and Belgium ...
In 2008, Harvard-educated art historian Jonathan Lopez published The Man Who Made Vermeers, Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren. His extensive research confirmed that Van Meegeren started to make forgeries, not so much because of feeling misunderstood and undervalued by art critics as some maintain, but for the income that ...
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.
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 ...
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]