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Provenance : how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Staff Reference LANDAU ND 1662 .M93 S26 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salisbury, Laney.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myatt, John, 1945-.
- Myatt, John.
- Art forgers--England--Biography.
- Art forgers.
- Drewe, John, 1948-.
- Drewe, John.
- Impostors and imposture--England--Biography.
- Impostors and imposture.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 327 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- "Recounts the activities of John Drewe, who manipulated struggling artist John Myatt and other unwitting accomplices to become prolific art forgers whose works Drewe successfully passed off as legitimate pieces."--Source unknown.
- Contents:
- "I want a nice Matisse"
- Canvas greed
- Art for sale
- Crossing the line
- Mibus wants his money back
- Self-made man
- Wreckers of civilization
- At the easel
- The fine art of provenance
- Full speed ahead
- After Giacometti
- A sinister message
- The bookworm
- The paper trail
- Falling off a log
- The bow tie
- Into the whirlwind
- Standing nude
- The pond man
- Myatt's blue period
- The chameleon
- A loaded briefcase
- The Auschwitz concert
- Extreme prudence
- We're not alone
- A slow burn
- The art squad
- The macaroni caper
- Nicked
- Aladdin's cave
- The fox
- Drewe descending
- South
- The trial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Landau-Savedoff Memorial Reference Collection on Cultural and Heritage Purloinment.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Salisbury, Laney. Provenance.
- ISBN:
- 9781594202209
- 1594202206
- OCLC:
- 276819734
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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