The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World by Anthony M. Amore Page A
Authors: Anthony M. Amore
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Williams, who lent me her expertise in the art world as well as the unabridged dictionary that is her brain.
I’m also thankful to Brian T. Kelly, Rob Fisher, Jamie Lawton, Elsa Puglielli, Peter Crowley, Michael Blanding, and Stephen Almagno for their support.
As I completed this book and I followed the events of the day, I cannot help but thank the men and women of the United States military, who put their lives on the line overseas so people like me can sit safely back home and work on books and such.
Most notably, I must thank my sister, Lori A. Giorgi, whose love, support, advice, and example mean everything to me. And finally, thanks are in order to the great matador Derek Fisher for all of his support and encouragement.
Selected Bibliography
Catterall, Lee. The Great Dali Fraud and Other Deceptions. New Jersey: Barricade Books, 1992.
Charney, Noah, ed. Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World. New York: Praeger, 2009.
Gassner, John and Sidney Thomas, eds. The Nature of Art. New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.
Gregori, Mina. The Age of Caravaggio. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.
Irving, Clifford. Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
Khandekar, Narayan, Gianfranco Pocobene and Kate Smith. John Singer Sargent’s Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard Art Museum, 2009.
Knelman, Joshua. Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art. Canada: Douglas &McIntyre, 2011.
Lopez, Jonathan. The Man Who Made Vermeers. Orlando: Harcourt, 2009.
Tomkins, Calvin. Lives of the Artists. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
(Credit: AP/ Peter Endig)
A woman looks at a painting by forger Han van Meegeren, which he sold as Jan Vermeer’s painting Christ and the Adultress. Also pictured is a forgery of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Sower by Leonhard Wackerforger at a 2014 exhibition of fakes at Moritzburg art museum in Germany.
Credit: (AP / dapd)
Wolfgang Beltracchi’s wife Helene poses as her own grandmother in front of forged paintings. At left is an artwork supposedly by Ferdinand Leger, unidentified paintings in the middle, and at right, Tremblement de Terre supposedly by Max Ernst. The couple staged this old family photograph as a back story for the forged paintings to prove their authenticity.
(Credit: AP / Peter Endig)
A woman studies the forgery Zwei rote Pferde in der Landschaf (Two Red Horses in Landscape), which was created in the style of artist Heinrich Campendonk by forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
(Credit: Art Analysis & Research)
The pigment collection of Dr. Nicholas Eastaugh and Dr. Jilleen Nadolny of Art Analysis & Research. The collection is comprised of over 3,000 provenanced samples. Eastaugh’s technical investigations of Beltracchi’s work uncovered his fraud, and the pair has performed analyses of a number of the forger’s other works.
(Credit: AP / Henning Kaiser)
German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
(Credit: AP/ JONATHON ZIEGLER / PatrickMcMullan.com)
Ann Freedman, gallerist and former president of the now defunct Knoedler & Company, September 2014.
(Credit: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
An encaustic Stars and Stripes painting entitled Flag, made between 1960–1966 by U.S. artist Jasper Johns.
(Credit: AP/Larry Neumeister)
Former New York foundry owner Brian Ramnarine leaves federal court in Manhattan after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trying to sell phony knockoffs of a sculpture of Jasper Johns’ Flag painting. Ramnarine had done work for Johns in the past, including casting a sculpture of Johns’ classic 1960 Flag painting.
(Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
Lawrence Salander, center, leaves New York Supreme Court with his son Jonah, right, and his attorney Charles Ross in New York. Salander pleaded guilty to 29 counts of grand larceny and fraud and was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison.
(Credit: AP/Max
I’m also thankful to Brian T. Kelly, Rob Fisher, Jamie Lawton, Elsa Puglielli, Peter Crowley, Michael Blanding, and Stephen Almagno for their support.
As I completed this book and I followed the events of the day, I cannot help but thank the men and women of the United States military, who put their lives on the line overseas so people like me can sit safely back home and work on books and such.
Most notably, I must thank my sister, Lori A. Giorgi, whose love, support, advice, and example mean everything to me. And finally, thanks are in order to the great matador Derek Fisher for all of his support and encouragement.
Selected Bibliography
Catterall, Lee. The Great Dali Fraud and Other Deceptions. New Jersey: Barricade Books, 1992.
Charney, Noah, ed. Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World. New York: Praeger, 2009.
Gassner, John and Sidney Thomas, eds. The Nature of Art. New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.
Gregori, Mina. The Age of Caravaggio. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.
Irving, Clifford. Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
Khandekar, Narayan, Gianfranco Pocobene and Kate Smith. John Singer Sargent’s Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard Art Museum, 2009.
Knelman, Joshua. Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art. Canada: Douglas &McIntyre, 2011.
Lopez, Jonathan. The Man Who Made Vermeers. Orlando: Harcourt, 2009.
Tomkins, Calvin. Lives of the Artists. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
(Credit: AP/ Peter Endig)
A woman looks at a painting by forger Han van Meegeren, which he sold as Jan Vermeer’s painting Christ and the Adultress. Also pictured is a forgery of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Sower by Leonhard Wackerforger at a 2014 exhibition of fakes at Moritzburg art museum in Germany.
Credit: (AP / dapd)
Wolfgang Beltracchi’s wife Helene poses as her own grandmother in front of forged paintings. At left is an artwork supposedly by Ferdinand Leger, unidentified paintings in the middle, and at right, Tremblement de Terre supposedly by Max Ernst. The couple staged this old family photograph as a back story for the forged paintings to prove their authenticity.
(Credit: AP / Peter Endig)
A woman studies the forgery Zwei rote Pferde in der Landschaf (Two Red Horses in Landscape), which was created in the style of artist Heinrich Campendonk by forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
(Credit: Art Analysis & Research)
The pigment collection of Dr. Nicholas Eastaugh and Dr. Jilleen Nadolny of Art Analysis & Research. The collection is comprised of over 3,000 provenanced samples. Eastaugh’s technical investigations of Beltracchi’s work uncovered his fraud, and the pair has performed analyses of a number of the forger’s other works.
(Credit: AP / Henning Kaiser)
German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
(Credit: AP/ JONATHON ZIEGLER / PatrickMcMullan.com)
Ann Freedman, gallerist and former president of the now defunct Knoedler & Company, September 2014.
(Credit: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
An encaustic Stars and Stripes painting entitled Flag, made between 1960–1966 by U.S. artist Jasper Johns.
(Credit: AP/Larry Neumeister)
Former New York foundry owner Brian Ramnarine leaves federal court in Manhattan after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trying to sell phony knockoffs of a sculpture of Jasper Johns’ Flag painting. Ramnarine had done work for Johns in the past, including casting a sculpture of Johns’ classic 1960 Flag painting.
(Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
Lawrence Salander, center, leaves New York Supreme Court with his son Jonah, right, and his attorney Charles Ross in New York. Salander pleaded guilty to 29 counts of grand larceny and fraud and was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison.
(Credit: AP/Max
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