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  2. Art forgery - Wikipedia

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    The Art Thief, an international best-selling novel by professor of art history Noah Charney, features a series of forgeries and art heists. In Clive Barker 's 1991 novel Imajica , the protagonist, John Furie Zacharias, known as "Gentle," makes his living as a master art forger.

  3. Wolfgang Beltracchi - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Elmyr de Hory - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Tom Keating - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. ‘Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art’ Review ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Outline of forgery - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Police uncover £165m forgery network across Europe producing ...

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    Six forgery workshops were thus uncovered, three in Italy and three elsewhere in Europe, containing over 1,000 fake artwork, as well as 450 counterfeit certificates and 50 fake stamps that were ...

  9. An Ex-Forger Created A $100 Million Fake Declaration of ... - AOL

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    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 ...