The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
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see also Hitler, Adolf
Sotheby’s
Apollo the Luteplayer and, 64–65
Khan and, 163, 165, 170
Picasso’s work and, 163, 165
Radcliffe and, 127–30
Sakhai and, 145, 147, 155–57
Sargent’s work and, 102–3, 109
Untitled, 1950 and, 51–52
Spiegel, David, 188
Spies, Werner, 20, 28, 32
Spilman, Geoffrey, 212–14, 219
Spring Sowing (de Ponte), 54
Springfield Museum (Springfield, MA), 54–55
Springsteen, Bruce, 68
Statue of Liberty, 82
Stein, David, 7
Sternheim, Thea, 19
Story of Exodus, The (Chagall), 176
Stuart, Gilbert, 1–3, 235n1
Sullivan, Gerald, 193, 202, 205, 207
Sumner, Charles, 100
Surrealism, 16, 20, 177, 179, 198
Swords, John E., 1–3, 235n1
Takeuchi, Yoichi, 153–55, 158
Tanning, Dorothea, 28
Tate Gallery (London), 109
Temchin, Myron, 200–2
Tendick, James, 188
Tetro, Tony, 8, 187
Tiffany lamps, 145–47
Titian, 35, 63
Tom Ford International, 45
Tranquil Remorse (Manoukian), 198
Trasteco, 23, 30
Tully, Judd, 67, 69
Umland, Anne, 80
United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), 183
Untitled, 1949, 44
Untitled, 1950, 45, 50–51
Untitled, 1956, 46, 49, 55
Valmier, Georges, 20, 27
Van Gogh, Vincent, 10, 18, 35, 113–14, 120, 178
van Meegeren, Han, 4–5, 8, 150
Vanderbilt family, 37
Vanity Fair magazine, 20, 27
Vase de Fleurs (Gauguin), 149, 155–56
Vermeer, Johannes, 4–5, 22, 152
Vilfer, Donald, 224
von Bruhle, Friederike Grafin, 24
Walsh, David Ignatius, 100
Walther, Yann, 9
Walton, Kenneth, 222–25
Wanamaker Block (Kline), 38
Warhol, Andy, 38, 64, 81, 85, 188
Weeks, Meghan, 9
Weissman, Julian 43, 47–48, 50–53, 57
Whitfield, Clovis, 64–65, 76
Whitney Museum of American Art, 81, 93
Wieseltier, Leon, 68
Wildenstein Institute (Paris), 156
Wilson, David, 100–4, 108–9
Winterthur Program (University of Delaware), 55
World War I, 18, 140
World War II, 17, 105, 140, 142–44, 150, 176
see also Hitler, Adolf; Nazis
X-ray, 11, 65, 154
Zabrin, Michael, 187–91, 206–7
(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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Nash)
Michael Bakwin’s Bouilloire et Fruits, painted by French impressionist Paul Cézanne, sells at a 1999 Sotheby’s auction in London for $29 million.
(Credit: AP / Charles Krupa)
Michael Bakwin holds up two paintings that were returned to him at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston in 2010. The two oil paintings by Jean Jansem were stolen from Bakwin and were returned following the 2008 trial of Robert Mardirosian. Bakwin had not seen the paintings since the 1978 theft.
(Credit: U.S. Department of Justice)
A fake of Picasso’s La Femme au Chapeau Bleu (The Woman in the Blue Hat), unwittingly created by a trompe l’oeil artist for dealer Tatiana Khan. Khan told the artist it was needed to aid the police, then attempted to pass it off as an authentic Picasso.
About the Author
Anthony M. Amore is an expert in security matters and head of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He is the co-author of Stealing Rembrandts, a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Before joining the Gardner Museum in 2005, Amore worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and was a Special Agent with the Federal Aviation Administration. He lives in Boston, MA.
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