The conman : how an amateur fooled the art world
Salisbury, Laney2018
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When an art teacher put a modest advertisement in Private Eye as a painter of 'genuine fakes', he had no idea that it would lead him to becoming a willing part of the biggest art fraud in Britain. Among one of the few people who responded was the mysterious and magnetic John Drewe, apparently a Professor and an inventor with impressive connections and a vast art collection. But really Drewe was a conman who was soon to take in the British art world with a daring scam that would last a decade. He sold galleries and collectors some 200 'genuine fakes' made with B&Q emulsion paint, mixed with KY jelly.
Main title:
The conman : how an amateur fooled the art world / Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo.
Author:
Salisbury, Laney, authorSujo, Aly, author
Imprint:
London : Gibson Square, 2018.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781783341405 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1635
LC class:
HV6691
Language:
English
BRN:
2238007
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