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The indigenous accomplice of art fraud is forgery.

It's a crime that is inevitable.

A crime driven by money, fed by greed and fired with jealousy,

its flames fanned by mans desire to win at all costs.

D.Freeman:
Executive Director. The Freemanart Consultancy

 

 


Art fraud is second only to drug trafficking.

Contrary to other forms of fraud, art fraud has its
own peculiar feature.

The victim is a victim, but may not know it


R E Kendall

Secretary General Interpol International

 

Art Fake net is an art resource information site that captures the stories, lives and deeds of the worlds greatest art fakers and the most infamous forgers and fraudsters in history.

Artfake.net brings you an insight into the activities of those accused, found guilty of, or held responsible for a variety of activities connected with the illicit reproduction of art, art work and antiquities, either without licence or the express permission of those who the re-creators pretended to be.

However, the precise & full stories of the fakers endeavours may never be known, nor the true magnitude of their trickery. This can only be known to themselves.

Many of us share a secret admiration for the faker, despite the hurt and loss that their deceptions have caused. Most of us admire them because they actually got away with it, at least for a little while!

Of the best remain the quiet ones. those fakers who succeed and will continue to do so, undiscovered and anonymous.

But surely we admire them most of all for their sheer genius. A talent which enabled the worlds greatest fakers to create so brilliantly, the fakes that actually duped the experts.

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Art fake net, brings together in one unique resource, the history of the greatest fakers, counterfeiters and art frauds in the world. Our aim is to build a comprehensive and constantly updating data base for educational purposes and for the enjoyment of all. Students, collectors and professionals.

Art authentication experts now use the worlds most advanced scientific technology in the detection of fakes and identifying counterfeit works of art. As history shows us, no longer is opinion alone satisfactory or acceptable in the authentication process.

After all, some of the most respected and important curators, the greatest museums, even the most educated art historians and experts have been very successfully duped by forgeries & fakes.

Provenance, which is the factual history of a work of arts whereabouts & origins, seems as likely to be recreated and tampered with today as the fakes themselves. As was aptly proven recently by John Myatt and John Drewe, whose art fraud and forgery scam shook the art world to its boots.

Definition: Counterfeit: bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), sham, spurious, unauthentic

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The Worlds Greatest Fakers of Art

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The Romans: Sculpture forgers and fakers

The Chinese:

Émile Schuffenecker:  Faker of van Gogh

Chang Dai-chien / Zhang Daqian

Faker of Chinese old master paintings

Italian stone carvers: Sculpture forgers and fakers
Earl M. Washington:  Print forger
A. Beers: Faker of fakes
Jacopo di Poggibonsi: Master forger of Filippo Lippi
Icilio Federico Joni: Old master paintings forger
Yves Chaudron: Faked lost and stolen art
Piero del Pollaiuolo: Forger copyist of Sandro Botticelli
Joseph van der Veken: Faked Miniatures +old masters
Elmyr de Hory: Faker of Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse
Michelangelo Simoni::Forged a marble cupid
Giorgio De Chirico: Forger of his own paintings
Tom Keating: Faked Samuel Palmer
Wolfgang Küffner: Faker of  Albrecht Dürer
Johann Georg Paul Fischer: Modernised old masters
Derek Hughes: Boudin and English primitive paintings
William Henry Ireland: Shakespeare painting forger
Alceo Dossena: Sculpture master forger
Lothar Malskat and  Dietrich Fey: Master forger
Paul Désiré Trouillebert: Corot forger
Han van Meegeren: Master faker of Vermeer
Eric Hebborn:  Forger of old master drawings
Eugenio Lucas Velasquez:  Goya faker

Giovanni Bastianini: Faked Italian Old Masters

Otto Wacker:  Alleged faker of Vincent van Gogh

Jean Charles Millet and Eugene Cazot

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David Stein: Master forger of Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Paul Klee, Miro, Cocteau, Rouault
Konrad Kujau: Faker of Hitlers watercolours
The Spanish Forger: Faker of medieval miniatures
Christian Goller:  Art faker
 

Guy Hain:  Faker of Rodin, Renoir, Maillol, Camille Claudel, Carpeaux, Barye, Fremiet and Mène sculptures.

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Jean-Pierre Schecroun: Picasso forgeries
Master Copyists
Fraudsters, frauds & scandals
Pamela and Ivan Liberto: Rover Thomas forgers
Hendrik Goltzius
Otto Wacker: Vincent van Gogh art fraud
Geert Jan Jansen: Master forger- Appel, Cocteau, Dufy, Erfman, Eyck, Gestel,, Matisse, Miro, Picasso
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Peter Paul Reubens

Edouardo Marquis of Valfierno:

Mona Lisa art theft

John Myatt / John Drewe: Faked Dubuffet, de Stael, Chagall, Sutherland, Ben Nicholson & Alberto Giacometti

Eugenio Lucas Velasquez

Paul Désiré Trouillebert

Real Lessard: The de Hory art scandal

Fernand Legros: The de Hory conspiracy

William Blundell: Faked Blackman, Picasso, Monet
Giovanni Bastianini
Elizabeth Durack:
John Douglas O'Loughlin: Faked Tjapaltjarri paintings
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
Amiel family: Mail fraud, fake prints scandal
Tony Tetro: Master forger & faker. Painted Chagall, Rembrandt, Dali, Picasso and Rothko

Paul Cezanne

Gustav Klimt

Shinichi Fujimura: Planted fake artefacts

Ethem Ulge: Fake paintings on ebay

Robert Thwaites: Faker of John Anster Fitzgerald
Miguel Canals
Pierre Marcand: Distributor, fake prints
Ely Sakhai: Gauguin faker, duplicator of Monet, Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin and Paul Klee

Christophe D. Petyt

The Posin Brothers

Andrew Behrman: Dealer in fake art

The Greenhalgh family (The Garden Shed Gang)
Faked Gaugin, Peploe, Lowry, artefacts and treasures

Jeremy Broadway: Faked pottery by Leach & Lucie Rie

Leo Stevenson

Professor Daniele Ermes Donde

Kenneth Andrew Walton and

Kenneth Fetterman: Selling fake art Ebay

Lucien Radu Stanciu: Alleged fake Brancusi sculptures

  Professor Andre Mailfer: Furniture faker

 

 

Forgers and Counterfeiters

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Mary Peck Butterworth: Rhode island currency forger
Giovanni Cavino & Pirro Ligorio: Coin counterfeiters
Enrico & Piero Penelli: Egyptian artefact forgers
Catherine Murphy: Currency forger - Coining
William Henry Ireland: Historical document & scripts
Konrad Kujau:  Faker & author, the Hitler diaries
Robert 'Forger' Spring: Historical document & letters forger
Riccardo Riccardi and Alfredo Fioravanti:
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The Ricardi family) Fakers of the Terracotta Warriors
John Laflin  aka John Laffite: Historical document forger
Reinhold Vasters: Ancient texts and antiquities forger
Alfred André: Jewellery Counterfeiter
Thomas McAnea: Bank note forger
Denis Vrain Lucas: Manuscript Historical forger
James Edward Little: Forger of Polynesian & Maori artefacts
Lawrence Cusack: Forger of the Kennedy papers and historical document forgery
Tadeu Hasdeu:   'Sinaia' lead plates issue
The Gokhman Brothers &  Israel Rouchomovsky
Mark William Hofmann: Historical document forger
Eugene Boban: Ancient artefact and antiquity forger
Jean de Sperati:  Master stamp forger
Pedro Castorena Ibarra:   Identity document forgery

The Mudlark Forgers: Artefact forgers

Billy (William) Smith and Charley (Charles) Eaton

Joseph Cosey aka Martin Coneely:

Historical document and autograph forger

Brigido Lara: Forger of pre-Columbian antiquities
Mario Terenzio Enrico Casalengo:  Document forgers

Ellic Howe and  Bernhard Kruger:

Espionage and document forgeries

The Lavender Hill Mob:  Bank note forgers, counterfeiters and distributors.
'Baron' Charles Weisberg: Forger of manuscripts, letters and signatures and historical documents
Eugene "Pinny" Field II: Autograph, historical document forger
Anatasios Arnaouti:  Bank note forger
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'Operation Dealer no Deal'Alleged production and distribution of fake limited edition prints by Picasso, Dali
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Greatest art fakers

1/Romans, Sculpture forgers,  Chinese, Italian stone carvers, Jacopo di Poggibonsi, Filippo Lippi, Piero del Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo Simoni, marble cupid, Wolfgang Küffner, Albrecht Dürer, William Henry Ireland, Shakespeare, painting forger, Paul Désiré Trouillebert, Corot forger, Eugenio Lucas Velasquez,  Goya faker, Giovanni Bastianini, Faked Italian Old Masters, Italian Old Masters,

2/ Emile Schuffenecker, van Gogh faker, Earl M. Washington, Print forger, Icilio Federico Joni, paintings forger, Joseph van der Veken, Fake Miniatures,

old master paintings, Giorgio De Chirico, stolen art, Johann Georg Paul Fischer,  Alceo Dossena, sculpture, Han van Meegeren,  faker of Vermeer, Otto Wacker, Spanish Forger, medieval miniatures, Christian Goller, Guy Hain,  Faker of Rodin, Renoir, Maillol, Camille Claudel, Carpeaux, Barye, Fremiet, Mène sculptures.

3/ Chang Dai-chien, Zhang Daqian, A. Beers, Yves Chaudron, Elmyr de Hory,

Faker of Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, Tom Keating, Samuel Palmer, Derek Hughes, Boudin, English primitive paintings, Lothar Malskat , Dietrich Fey,

Eric Hebborn, Forger of old master drawings, David Stein, Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Paul Klee, Miro, Cocteau, Rouault, Konrad Kujau, hitler watercolours, 

4/ Jean-Pierre Schecroun, Picasso forgeries,  Pamela Ivan Liberto, Rover Thomas forgers, Geert Jan Jansen, Appel, Cocteau, Dufy, Erfman, Eyck, Gestel, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Reubens,  John Myatt, John Drewe, Dubuffet, de Stael, Chagall, Sutherland, Ben Nicholson, Alberto Giacometti,  William Blundell,  Blackman, Monet,

John Douglas O'Loughlin,  Tjapaltjarri paintings, Tony Tetro,  Painted, Chagall, Rembrandt, Dali, Rothko, Paul Cezanne, Gustav Klimt, Robert Thwaites, John Anster Fitzgerald, Ely Sakhai: Gauguin faker, duplicator of Monet,  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Greenhalgh family, Garden Shed Gang, Faked Gaugin, Peploe, Lowry, artefacts, treasures, Jeremy Broadway: Faked pottery, Leach, Lucie Rie,

 

 

 

 

Master Copyists

5/ Hendrik Goltzius, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Reubens, Eugenio Lucas Velasquez, Paul Désiré Trouillebert, Giovanni Bastianini, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Gustav Klimt, Miguel Canals, Christophe D. Petyt, The Posin Brothers Leo Stevenson, Professor Daniele Ermes Donde

Fraudsters, frauds & scandals

6/ Otto Wacker,  Vincent van Gogh, Edouardo Marquis of Valfierno, Mona Lisa art theft, Real Lessard,  de Hory, art scandal, Fernand ,Legros,  de Hory conspiracy,

Elizabeth Durack, Amiel family, Mail fraud, fake prints, Shinichi Fujimura, fake artefacts, Ethem Ulge, Fake paintings on ebay, Pierre Marcand: Distributor of fake prints, Andrew Behrman,  Dealer in fake art, Kenneth Andrew Walton, Kenneth Fetterman: Selling fake art, Ebay, Lucien Radu Stanciu, fake Brancusi sculptures,

  

The Counterfeiters

1/ Mary Peck Butterworth: Rhode island, currency forger, Catherine Murphy,  Coining, Robert forger Spring, letters forger, Reinhold Vasters, Ancient texts, antiquities forger,  Denis Vrain Lucas, Manuscript, Historical forger, Tadeu Hasdeu,   Sinaia lead plates, Eugene Boban: Ancient artefact,  antiquity forger,  Mudlark Forgers, Billy William Smith , Charley Charles Eaton, Mario Terenzio Enrico Casalengo, Baron Charles Weisberg, manuscripts, letters, signatures,

2/ Giovanni Cavino, Pirro Ligorio, Coin counterfeiters,  Historical documents, scripts, Riccardo Riccardi , Alfredo Fioravanti,  Ricardi family,  Terracotta Warriors ,Alfred André, Jewellery Counterfeiter, James Edward Little,  Polynesian, Maori artefacts, Gokhman Brothers,  Israel Rouchomovsky, Jean de Sperati,  stamp forger,  Joseph Cosey , Martin Coneely, autograph forger,   Ellic Howe,  Bernhard Kruger, Espionage   forgeries,  Eugene Pinny Field.

3/Enrico , Piero Penelli, Egyptian artefact forgers,   Konrad Kujau, author of the Hitler diaries,  John Laflin,  aka, John Laffite, Historical document forger, Thomas McAnea, Bank note forger,  Lawrence Cusack,  Kennedy papers, Mark William Hofmann,  Pedro Castorena Ibarra,  Identity document forgery,  Brigido Lara, pre-Columbian,  antiquities , Lavender Hill Mob, bank note forgers, counterfeiters and distributors, Anatasios Arnaouti,, Operation Dealer no Deal, alleged production and distribution,  fake limited edition prints.

  

 

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