Provenance_ How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art - Laney Salisbury [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - “I WANT A NICE MATISSE”
Chapter 2 - CANVAS GREED
Chapter 3 - ART FOR SALE
Chapter 4 - CROSSING THE LINE
Chapter 5 - MIBUS WANTS HIS MONEY BACK
Chapter 6 - SELF-MADE MAN
Chapter 7 - WRECKERS OF CIVILIZATION
Chapter 8 - AT THE EASEL
Chapter 9 - THE FINE ART OF PROVENANCE
Chapter 10 - FULL SPEED AHEAD
Chapter 11 - AFTER GIACOMETTI
Chapter 12 - A SINISTER MESSAGE
Chapter 13 - THE BOOKWORM
Chapter 14 - THE PAPER TRAIL
Chapter 15 - FALLING OFF A LOG
Chapter 16 - THE BOW TIE
Chapter 17 - INTO THE WHIRLWIND
Chapter 18 - STANDING NUDE
Chapter 19 - THE POND MAN
Chapter 20 - MYATT’S BLUE PERIOD
Chapter 21 - THE CHAMELEON
Chapter 22 - A LOADED BRIEFCASE
Chapter 23 - THE AUSCHWITZ CONCERT
Chapter 24 - EXTREME PRUDENCE
Chapter 25 - WE’RE NOT ALONE
Chapter 26 - A SLOW BURN . . .
Chapter 27 - THE ART SQUAD
Chapter 28 - THE MACARONI CAPER
Chapter 29 - NICKED
Chapter 30 - ALADDIN’S CAVE
Chapter 31 - THE FOX
Chapter 32 - DREWE DESCENDING
Chapter 33 - SOUTH
Chapter 34 - THE TRIAL
EPILOGUE
AUTHORS’ NOTE
Acknowledgements
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Salisbury, Laney.
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art / Laney Salisbury
and Aly Sujo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-101-10500-9
1. Myatt, John, 1945- 2. Art forgers—England—Biography. 3. Drewe, John, 1948-
4. Impostors and imposture—England—Biography. I. Sujo, Aly. II. Title.
ND1662.M93S26 2009
364.16’3—dc22
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FOR ALY SUJO, WITH LOVE.
AUG. 26, 1949-OCT. 4, 2008
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE GENESIS OF A SCAM
John Drewe
professor, physicist, man of many guises, and the brilliant mastermind of one of the great art frauds of the twentieth century.
Batsheva Goudsmid
Drewe’s common-law wife; once