false 6361913 1 <B>A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century’s most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today</B><BR><BR><I>Provenance</I> is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain, John Drewe, and his sometimes unwitting accomplices.<BR><BR> Chief among those was the struggling artist John Myatt, a vulnerable single father who was manipulated by Drewe into becoming a prolific art forger. Once Myatt had painted the pieces, the real fraud began. Drewe managed to infiltrate the archives of the upper echelons of the British art world in order to fake the provenance of Myatt’s forged pieces, hoping to irrevocably legitimize the fakes while effectively rewriting art history.<BR><BR> The story stretches from London to Paris to New York, from tony Manhattan art galleries to the esteemed Giacometti and Dubuffet associations, to the archives at the Tate Gallery. This enormous swindle resulted in the introduction of at least two hundred forged paintings, some of them breathtakingly good and most of them selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of these fakes are still out in the world, considered genuine and hung prominently in private houses, large galleries, and prestigious museums. And the sacred archives, undermined by John Drewe, remain tainted to this day.<BR><BR> <I>Provenance</I> reads like a well-plotted thriller, filled with unforgettable characters and told at a breakneck pace. But this is most certainly not fiction; <I>Provenance</I> is the meticulously researched and captivating account of one of the greatest cons in the history of art forgery. 6549029 book 9 7 2009 Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art total:51|5:11|4:25|3:9|2:6|1:0| 51 194 227 22 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 15:25:27 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 15:26:05 -0700 2009
Inside an art history mystery
Review by Alison Hood

If the summer fiction offerings aren’t tempting enough to tote to the seaside, pick up Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by husband-and-wife journalists Laney ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 17:19:01 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:53:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 10:44:04 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 10:53:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 18:15:18 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 17:23:42 -0700 2009 Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, or The Medici Conspiracy, or False Impressions, then this book is for you.more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:02:54 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:59:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 18:41:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 13:28:15 -0700 2009
The book tells the story of John Drewe, an English con man who, over the course of a decade floods the international art market with fakes and doctors museum paperwork to support h...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:03:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:10:54 -0700 2009 Science Monitor. He said not to read it before going to bed because you'll not want to put it down. So true. I learned not just about this amazing 9 year long caper, but also about con people in history. Utterly fascinating, we...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:20:35 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:26:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 06:09:59 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 06:12:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 12:04:06 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 07:41:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 17:39:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 04:49:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 15:46:04 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 07:26:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 20:40:36 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 20:42:19 -0700 2009 Didn't want it to end.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 09:07:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 04:55:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:25:22 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:26:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 10:59:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 10:59:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 10:48:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:49:15 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:35:35 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:35:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Aug 03 12:53:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 06:03:04 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:53:00 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 05:18:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 05:21:55 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6361913