• Forgers and Artists - True Stories

  • Written by: Studio Minuit
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Forgers and Artists - True Stories

Written by: Studio Minuit
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  • According to experts, 30% of the paintings circulating on the art market are forgeries. Are any of them on your walls? Some forgers even claim their creations hang in the world's most famous museums. Truth? Urban Legend? Who knows...Fernand Legros, Wolfgang Beltracchi, these names may not mean anything to you, but they've left a stain on art history. These personalities got rich for years, by deceiving the greatest experts and the wealthiest collectors.From imitating the style of famous painters, to counterfeiting books and wines, they conned thousands of people with their innate talent: swindling. Listen to the incredible stories of the greatest forgers in art history in Forgers and Artists, True Stories.
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  • Fernand Legros : the mystifier

    Fernand Legros : the mystifier
    May 29 2024

    There are people you meet and can never forget. Fernand Legros is one of those : he is one of the 20th century's greatest forgers and yet, he never painted a single picture. A flamboyed, mystifier, mythomaniac, there are few verifiable elements of Legros' life...
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    11 mins
  • David Stein : the legendary forger

    David Stein : the legendary forger
    May 22 2024

    Born on January 27th, 1935 in Colombes, near Paris, Henri Abel Abraham Haddad is better known under the name of David Stein. During his life, he assumed no less than fourteen pseudonyms including, but not limited to, Philippe Ducrest, Georges Delaunay, Alain, Philippe or Michel Leroy, Jacques Bergerot, Philip Gray or Harcourt, Roger Delorme, Michel de Rivais or Anceline, Guy Lefranc, Jacques Alain de Villene, Claude Zekri...
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    12 mins
  • Wolfgang Beltracchi : the prince of forgers

    Wolfgang Beltracchi : the prince of forgers
    May 15 2024

    Of all the forgers in history, here is one who will be remembered for a long time by the art world. With his worn-out rock star look, it is hard to believe that Wolfgang Beltracchi authored over 300 fake paintings. He claims to have imitated a hundred different painters, including the cubists Georges Valmier and Fernand Léger, the expressionist Johannes Molzahn, the German Max Ernst, the Frenchmen Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy and André Derain. A counterfeit bounty estimated at over 19 million euros...
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    12 mins
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