Art Forgery Stories
The Masterpieces That Never Were
Ten true stories of paintings that fooled collectors, galleries and museums, and the clues that gave them away.
The white paint that exposed BeltracchiThe Vermeer the forger had to paint again
The fake Rothko that sold for $8.3 million
The fakes planted in the Tate archives
The Modigliani that hung for years in Miami
The priest who gave museums fake paintings
When Chagall saw David Stein’s Chagalls
The forgeries collectors wanted under Tom Keating’s name
The secret recording in the Tony Tetro case
The medieval murals their painter exposed himself