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Art Forgery Books
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The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.76 — 93,740 ratings — published 2012
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,103 ratings — published 2008
Caveat Emptor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,146 ratings — published 2012
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,670 ratings — published 2009
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,608 ratings — published 2006
Doors Open (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.54 — 5,838 ratings — published 2008
The Forgery of Venus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,978 ratings — published 2008
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.09 — 3,674 ratings — published 2007
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,733 ratings — published 2014
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,035 ratings — published 2022
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,195 ratings — published 2015
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.92 — 89,410 ratings — published 2023
Artifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,285 ratings — published 2023
Woman on Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.00 — 35,782 ratings — published 2022
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,655 ratings — published 2009
The art forgers handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.24 — 127 ratings — published 1997
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,335 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.95 — 716 ratings — published 2015
Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mrs. Pollifax, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,015 ratings — published 1993
Culture in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.56 — 116 ratings — published 2019
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,869 ratings — published 2025
Restoration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.64 — 952 ratings — published 1994
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.64 — 678 ratings — published 2009
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.23 — 33,038 ratings — published 2022
Plunder and Survival: Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi Uprooted Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,182 ratings — published 2009
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,268 ratings — published 2005
The Muse of Edouard Manet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.86 — 155 ratings — published 2010
Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,837 ratings — published 2019
The Last Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,147 ratings — published 2023
The Stolen Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,596 ratings — published 2021
The Night Portrait (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,647 ratings — published 2020
The Keeper of Lost Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,406 ratings — published
The Lady and the Unicorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.71 — 47,407 ratings — published 2003
The Magnolia Palace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.87 — 82,222 ratings — published 2022
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.34 — 200 ratings — published
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,572 ratings — published 2011
The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.84 — 597 ratings — published 2004
Britain’s No. 1 Art Forger Max Brandrett: The Life of a Cheeky Faker (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published
Artfully Yours (Duke Undone, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,780 ratings — published 2023
In The Full Light Of The Sun: A Gripping Literary Novel of Art Forgeries in Nazi Germany – Based on a True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,022 ratings — published 2019
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie Auction House Scandal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.72 — 626 ratings — published 2004
Tapaus Avantgarde – Väärennökset ja Turun skandaali (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,032 ratings — published 2009
Rogues’ Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.87 — 319 ratings — published 2017
Who Is Elmyr?: Histories of An Art Forger (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.63 — 59 ratings — published
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,575 ratings — published 2009
Breaking van Gogh: Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 3.51 — 98 ratings — published
Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,555 ratings — published 2022
Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as art-forgery)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,067 ratings — published 2021
“AI art is just fancy knockoff.”
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“But the most intriguing part of the van Meegeren story is how his success as a forger got him arrested as a war criminal. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Han-he was also an art dealer-sold one of his Vermeer forgeries, Christ with the Adulteress, to a German banker, who then sold it to Hermann Goering, number two in Hitler's command. When the painting was discovered hidden in an Austrian salt mine after the war, it was traced back to Han. On the assumption that he had sold a Dutch national treasure to the enemy during wartime, van Meegeren charged as a Nazi collaborator and thrown into jail.
Han was then faced with a choice: Confess to forging the painting or spend the rest of his life in prison. After a week in solitary confinement, he told his jailers that the painting was not a master- piece by Vermeer, just a forgery by van Meegeren. But, to both his dismay and gratification, no one believed him. So, under the vigilant eyes s of reporters and court-appointed witnesses, he repainted the forgery while a prisoner at the Headquarters of Military Command. Both of his works were "authenticated" as forgeries, and the war crime charges were dropped.”
― The Art Forger
Han was then faced with a choice: Confess to forging the painting or spend the rest of his life in prison. After a week in solitary confinement, he told his jailers that the painting was not a master- piece by Vermeer, just a forgery by van Meegeren. But, to both his dismay and gratification, no one believed him. So, under the vigilant eyes s of reporters and court-appointed witnesses, he repainted the forgery while a prisoner at the Headquarters of Military Command. Both of his works were "authenticated" as forgeries, and the war crime charges were dropped.”
― The Art Forger
