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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)

By: Aly Sujo (Author) and Laney Salisbury (Author)

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"A colorful cast and nimble detection make for a thoroughly engrossing tale of warped creativity and monstrous hubris."

"I'd expected to despise the psychopath at the center of what Scotland Yard called the biggest art fraud of the 20th century. But somehow, from the first page, he got me to drop my guard. Drewe, for all his odious ambitions, is ingenious, persuasive, even brilliant. As I was pulled deeper into his deceptions, I couldn't help admiring this creep."

"Tautly written and assiduously researched by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo..., [PROVENANCE] has the pace and suspense of a good thriller, and a colorful international cast."

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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 that still adorn private collections, large galleries, and prestigious museums.

A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th centuryas most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeriesamany of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today
"Provenance" is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain, John Drewe, and his sometimes unwitting accomplices.
Chief among those was the struggling artist John Myatt, a vulnerable single father who was manipulated by Drewe into becoming a prolific art forger. Once Myatt had painted the pieces, the real fraud began. Drewe managed to infiltrate the archives of the upper echelons of the British art world in order to fake the provenance of Myattas forged pieces, hoping to irrevocably legitimize the fakes while effectively rewriting art history.
The story stretches from London to Paris to New York, from tony Manhattan art galleries to the esteemed Giacometti and Dubuffet associations, to the archives at the Tate Gallery. This enormous swindle resulted in the introduction of at least two hundred forged paintings, some of them breathtakingly good and most of them selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of these fakes are still out in the world, considered genuine and hung prominently in private houses, large galleries, and prestigious museums. And the sacred archives, undermined by John Drewe, remain tainted to this day.
"Provenance" reads like a well-plotted thriller, filled with unforgettable characters and told at a breakneck pace. But this is most certainly not fiction; "Provenance"is the meticulously researched and captivating account of one of the greatest cons in the history of art forgery.

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A husband-and-wife team of journalists provide this shocking account of how a well- connected con man named John Drewe spent more than a decade flooding the art market with forged paintings, earning a fortune in the process. Drewe found a starving artist and single father named John Myatt who was able to impeccably duplicate artistic masterpieces, but the fakes required the proper documentation verifying the authenticity of the work. Using bribery, counterfeit, and confidence, Drewe was able to either falsify the paperwork, or convince unwitting accomplices to authenticate his forgeries, many of which remain on display in prominent galleries around the world.

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