How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
by Laney Salisbury
appears in True Crime, Mystery & Crime, and Art.
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeriesmany of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today.Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most farreaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbu...
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