Forgers and Artists - True Stories
According to experts, 30% of the paintings circulating on the art market are forgeries. Are any of them on your walls? Some forgers even claim their creations hang in the world's most famous museums. Truth? Urban Legend? Who knows...Fernand Legros, Wolfgang Beltracchi, these names may not mean anything to you, but they've left a stain on art history. These personalities got rich for years, by deceiving the greatest experts and the wealthiest collectors.From imitating the style of famous painters, to counterfeiting books and wines, they conned thousands of people with their innate talent: swindling. Listen to the incredible stories of the greatest forgers in art history in Forgers and Artists, True Stories.
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19
Pei-Shen Qian : the international forger
Dec 6, 2023
9 MINTony Tetro and the fake paintings of Prince Charles
Dec 2, 20239 MINTom Keating : the man of 2000 counterfeits
Nov 29, 202311 MINThe Greenhalgh family : master forgers
Nov 25, 202311 MINEric Piedoie le Tiec and the false Césars
Nov 22, 202312 MINYves Chaudron and the Mona Lisa affair
Nov 18, 20237 MINHan Van Meegeren : the disciple of Vermeer
Nov 15, 202311 MINGuy Hain : from bronze to silver
Nov 11, 202311 MINFernand Legros : the mystifier
Nov 8, 202310 MINDavid Stein : the legendary forger
Nov 1, 202312 MINWolfgang Beltracchi : the prince of forgers
Oct 25, 202312 MINClifford Irving : the forger in literature
Sep 20, 20238 MINKonrad Kujau and the fake diary of Adolf Hitler
Sep 16, 202310 MINCeslaw Bojarski, the Rembrandt of counterfeit bills
Sep 13, 202311 MINJoyce Hatto : the forger of classical music
Sep 9, 202310 MINMaximilien-Théodore Chrétin : the inventive forger
Sep 6, 202311 MINMichael Barret : the book forger
Aug 26, 20237 MINAdolfo Kaminsky : the Da Vinci of fake IDs
Aug 23, 20239 MINTrailer - Forgers and Artists, True Stories
May 21, 20221 MIN