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From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. A decade-long art scam that sullied the integrity of museum archives and experts alike is elegantly recounted by husband-and-wife journalists Salisbury and Sujo. In 1986, when struggling painter and single father John Myatt advertised copies of famous paintings, he never imagined he'd become a key player in one of Britain's biggest art frauds. Myatt soon met John Drewe, who claimed to be a physicist and avid art collector. Soon Drewe, a silver-tongued con man, was passing off Myatt's work as genuine, including paintings in the style of artists like Giacometti and Ben Nicholson. When buyers expressed concern about the works' provenance, Drewe began the painstaking process of falsifying records of ownership. Posing as a benefactor, Drewe even planted false documents in the archives of London's Tate Gallery, but suspicious historians and archivists eventually assisted Scotland Yard in bringing him to justice. Salisbury and Sujo (who died in 2008) evoke with flair the plush art world and its penetration by the seductive Drewe as well as the other players in this fascinating art drama. (July 13) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of R

Who reads Provenance : How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art?

Author

Salisbury, Laney & Sujo, Aly

Publisher

Penguin Group USA, Inc

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143117407

Category

art

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.89 / 5 (4,410 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14