25 years ago today, John Myatt was given a year in prison for faking around 200 artworks by the likes of Matisse and Chagall - in his preferred medium: household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly
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Extraordinary stuff. There's a link in the post to a long read from the New York Times, which goes into more detail about John Drewe, who's clearly a wrong 'un and a half
It's refreshing to see good old fashioned fraud that takes actual hard work and skill, instead of the current trendy fraud that's just selling links to jpegs to greedy morons.
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