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Lädt ... A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forgervon Shaun Greenhalgh
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In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court case, the breadth of his forgeries shocked the art world and tantalised the media. What no one realised was how much more of the story there was to tell. Written in prison, A Forger's Tale details Shaun's notorious career and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it. From Leonardo drawings to L.S. Lowry paintings, from busts of American presidents to Anglo-Saxon brooches, from cutting-edge Modernism to the ancient art of the Stone Age, Greenhalgh could--and did--copy it all. Told with great wit and charm, this is the definitive account of Britain's most successful and infamous forger, a man whose love for art saturates every page of this extraordinary memoir. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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"Self-justificatory," said dubious publishers. Yes, it is. He did what he did because he wanted to, and he repeatedly denies deliberate intent to deceive, selling his pieces for modest (though often handsome) sums to dealers "as seen," and after that... what they did with them or what they told buyers they were - not his problem. But he was on his way down the slope, aided and abetted by the shysters, and began to truly "forge." An ersatz Ming vase, the fake Gauguin ceramic faun, the celebrated "Principessa" drawing supposedly by Leonardo... all his. And he tells us how he did it. The details can get arcane, and even he gets bored once he has mastered a medium, and skips on to something else. But as a portrait of a phenomenally gifted craftsman, and an insight - intended or not - into the mind of someone who pulled off what he did, it's fascinating. And as Shaun points out: it may be best to simply look at the work in front of you. Don't put too much credence in the wall label and the auction catalog - they have their own agendas - and you never know. What should matter is the thing itself, and what it says to you.
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