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Jean-Pierre Schecroun: (C 1940) French Jean-Pierre Schecroun was a French art forger arrested for his Picasso forgeries in 1962. At the time he had admitted to making eight forgeries in two years. Before he was arrested and charged with forgery in 1962, Schecroun had produced about 80 works purported to be by Picasso and others. |
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Pamela and Ivan Liberto: (C 1942) Australians Art forgers Were jailed for nine months in 2007 after forging works by aboriginal artist Rover Thomas, four of which sold for over $307,000 through auction houses including Sotheby's and Christie's
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Pamela Liberto Ivan Liberto |
Geert Jan Jansen: (B 1943) French Master art forger and faker. Has been called by the French police, the most sophisticated and prolific master forger that ever lived. He had over 12 million in Swiss bank accounts and 3 false identities. Not clever enough though as Dutch painter Karel Appel recognized one of Jansen's forgeries as his own work. When police investigated the farm where Jansen has his studio, they found 1600 forged paintings, including works purportedly by Cocteau, Dufy, Ferdinand Erfman, Charles Eyck, Leo Gestel, Bart van der Leck, Matisse, Miro and the most popular target of all, Picasso. Jansen was sentenced to one-year imprisonment and five additional years suspended sentence. |
Geert Jan Jansen |
John Myatt (B 1945) and John Drewe: (B 1948) British Art Forgers and Fakers.
British artist John Myatt painted fake works purportedly by Jean Dubuffet, Nicolas de Stael, Marc Chagall, Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and Alberto Giacometti, with John Drewe cleverly forging false documentation and provenances and planting the information in archive. It was to be one of the biggest modern day art forgery scams and it rocked the art world to its boots. 60 of the fakes were recovered by police but at least another 140 still remain at large. |
John Myatt
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William Blundell: (B. 1947) Australian Art Forger Blundel is an Australian who painted works for Sydney art dealer Germaine Marie François Toussaint Curvers in the manner of many Australian artists such as; Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, Lloyd Rees, Arthur Streeton, but also very successfully, Monet, Picasso and Brett Whiteley. |
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John Douglas O'Loughlin: (1948-) Australian Art Forger In 2001, an Adelaide art dealer who sold fake Dreamtime art, purportedly to be by Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, was found guilty of deception. In 1999, police were called in to make enquiries after experts queried the authenticity of dot paintings hanging in his Sydney gallery. O'Loughlin, told the court that he was allowed to make Tjapaltjarri paintings because he was given a "skin name" during a ceremonial kangaroo hunt and was therefore Tjapaltjarri's cousin and entitiled to! |
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Tony Tetro: (B.1950) American Art Forger and Faker. Convicted art faker Tony Tetro, is an American, born in 1950. This high living individual was a massively talented and prolific art forger whose works varied from Chagall to Rembrandt and Dali to Rothko. He did very well for himself by deceiving the art world very successfully throughout the 70's and 80's. Convicted of art forgery in a show trial in Los Angeles he was charged with 44 counts of felony forgery and one count of conspiracy to defraud. He was released from jail in 1994.
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Robert Thwaites: (B.1952) British Art Forger and Faker. This talented master craftsman who originally trained as a graphic designer, produced unknown numbers of superb forgeries, mainly of fairy tale British Victorian oil paintings. He even conned an Antiques Roadshow expert Rupert Maas into buying one of his 19th century fakes, purportedly by John Anster Fitzgerald, (1823-1906) which the expert art dealer paid £20,000.00 for. So brilliant was the forgery entitled 'The Miser', that he was able to sell it on for a 300% mark-up. Using his incredible talent as a faker of Fitzgerald, Thwaites had also conned the experienced and well respected gallery owner Christopher Beetles out of more than £100,000 with yet another fake Fitzgerald creation called 'Going To The Masked Ball.' The artist slipped up though after trying to sell a third painting to a prospective buyer with the help of his brother Brian Thwaites and was subsequently arrested. Tests on the pigments Thwaites had used showed that titanium and acrylic compounds were present in the fake paintings, materials which were not available until many years after Fitzgeralds death. A simple but vital mistake made by the faker. For the deception, Thwaites was jailed for two years and his brother received a suspended sentence. |
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Ely Sakhai: (B 1952) Iranian Art Forger Ely Sakhai is a Manhattan gallery owner, charged with forging works by numerous post-Impressionist and Impressionist painters. According to the FBI, Sakhai had bought the real Gauguin years earlier, painted a duplicate and sold the fake copy to a Japanese collector. Sakhai then brazenly put the original up for auction in an attempt to double his profits. It was a pure fluke that the unwitting owner of the Tokyo forgery decided to resell his copy at the same time. But for that coincidence, the forgery might never have been identified.
Sakhai allegedly duplicated 25 works by the painters; Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin and Paul Klee amongst others.. Prosecutors claimed he had been pursuing his forgeries racket for about 14 years and an estimate of his profits sits at $3.5 million. In March 2004, Sakhai was charged with a total of 8 counts of art fraud and deception but was released on bail. In July of 2005 he was sentenced to 41 months in prison, fined $12.5 million and ordered to forfeit eleven art works, for the crime of federal mail fraud. |
Ely Sakhai |
The Greenhalgh family. (20C) The Garden Shed Gang. Known in the press as the Artful Codgers.
The lastest massive art faking scandal to hit the media and rock the art world.
Greenhalgh instead, turned very successfully to faking a huge variety of Art Treasures, from Egyptian figures and Assyrian reliefs to paintings by Gaugin, Peploe and Lowry. His parents, George and Olive, convincingly approached clients, while his older brother, George Jnr, managed the money. Over a million pounds was made it is believed.
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Olive Greenhalgh
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Jeremy Broadway (1956-) British. Pottery faker
The former art teacher and ceramicist forged the works of renowned potters Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie, according to Dorset police, duping both Bonhams and Christies experts who unwittingly offered his fakes for sale at auction. Bonhams had included three bogus ceramics in one of their sales which proved to be fakes, including a purported Leach vases and a Rie pot, selling for a total of £8,900. Christie's had their suspicions about the authenticity of the ceramics they were offered, having accepted three bowls, purportedly made by Rie for sale, with a total reserve of £17,000 but withdrew them before the auction. Broadway made his mistake when he got greedy and returned to Bonhams intending to pass off more fake ceramic pieces that he'd made in his garden shed but, they were identified as counterfeit by Bonhams ceramics experts. In court, police alleged that between 2003 and 2006, Broadway made over £20,000 from the fraud by selling to collectors throughout Europe. Jeremy Broadway was charged with obtaining money by deception and found guilty in his absence as he was mentally unfit to appear and received a 12-month supervision order under the Mental Health Act for his efforts. |
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Contents: 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,
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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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