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Forgers and Artists - True Stories

De: Studio Minuit
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  • According to experts, 30% of the paintings circulating on the art market are forgeries. Are any of them on your walls? Some forgers even claim their creations hang in the world's most famous museums. Truth? Urban Legend? Who knows...Fernand Legros, Wolfgang Beltracchi, these names may not mean anything to you, but they've left a stain on art history. These personalities got rich for years, by deceiving the greatest experts and the wealthiest collectors.From imitating the style of famous painters, to counterfeiting books and wines, they conned thousands of people with their innate talent: swindling. Listen to the incredible stories of the greatest forgers in art history in Forgers and Artists, True Stories.

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  • Pei-Shen Qian : the international forger
    Jul 24 2024

    Pei-Shen Qian, born in China in 1950, is recognized as a full-fledged artist in his home country, where he has exhibited portraits of Mao since the 1970s and taught painting. But Pei-Shen also likes abstract art, and the government in Beijing does not approve of this style, which they consider decadent. So Pei-Shen immigrates to the United States on a student visa in 1981 and settles in Queens, New York. He studies at the Arts Student League with abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart. However, he does not enjoy the same success as in his native country.

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    10 m
  • Tony Tetro and the fake paintings of Prince Charles
    Jul 17 2024

    Tony Tetro is a forger who recently rose to fame : a property of the British royal family belonging to Prince Charles hosts three of his forgeries. 104 million pounds sterling. That's the estimated value of the triple scam. Perhaps more. But let's start from the beginning...

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    10 m
  • Tom Keating : the man of 2000 counterfeits
    Jul 10 2024

    Thomas Patrick Keating was a british man, born in Lewisham to a poor family in 1917, during the First World War. He claimed he made over two thousand forgeries without ever accepting to identify any of them. At Keating's death, the auction house Christie's organized a sale including 204 of his listed forgeries. Where are the rest? Given his talents and the profusion of his creations, you have very probably seen some of them in museums or galleries you have visited. What is it that made Tom Keating so special? Let's find out...

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    11 m

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