The Conman: How One Man Fooled Britain's Modern-Art Establishment: Chasing After the Mastermind Behind Britain's Most Daring Art Fraud

by Laney Salisbury (Author), Aly Sujo (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $3.21

  When teacher John Myatt put a modest advertisement in Private Eye as a painter of 'genuine fakes', he had no idea that it would lead to him becoming a willing part of the biggest art fraud in Britain. Among one of the few people who responded was the mysterious and magnetic John Drewe, a Professor and inventor with impressive connections. Soon the commissions flooded in and soon it also became clear that there was something very fishy about them - When he confronted Drewe, to his amazement he found himself agreeing to an audacious criminal career with Drewe as the spider in an ever-growing web of deceit...