Provenance (English)

A husband-and-wife team of journalists provide this shocking account of how a well- connected con man named John Drewe spent more than a decade flooding the art market with forged paintings, earning a fortune in the process. Drewe found a starving artist and single father named John Myatt who was able to impeccably duplicate artistic masterpieces, but the fakes required the proper documentation verifying the authenticity of the work. Using bribery, counterfeit, and confidence, Drewe was able to either falsify the paperwork, or convince unwitting accomplices to authenticate his forgeries, many of which remain on display in prominent galleries around the world. minimize