Provenance : how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
Salisbury, Laney
Provenance : how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art / Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo - New York : Penguin Press , 2009. - xv, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-316) and index.
"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.
Investigative reporters Salisbury and Sujo presents a tautly paced investigation of one of the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries--many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today.
9781594202209
2009003552
015266283 Uk
Myatt, John , 1945-
Drewe, John , 1948-
Art forgers----Biography
Impostors and impostures----Biography
ND1662.M93 / S26 2009
364.16 SAL
Provenance : how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art / Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo - New York : Penguin Press , 2009. - xv, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-316) and index.
"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.
Investigative reporters Salisbury and Sujo presents a tautly paced investigation of one of the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries--many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today.
9781594202209
2009003552
015266283 Uk
Myatt, John , 1945-
Drewe, John , 1948-
Art forgers----Biography
Impostors and impostures----Biography
ND1662.M93 / S26 2009
364.16 SAL
info@labibliotecapublica.org | 