PublishedAllen & Unwin, May 2017 |
ISBN9781760295226 |
FormatSoftcover, 384 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm |
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court case, the breadth of his forgeries shocked the art world and tantalised the media. What no one realised was how much more of the story there was to tell.
Written in prison, A Forger's Tale details Shaun's notorious career and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it. From Leonardo drawings to L.S. Lowry paintings, from busts of American presidents to Anglo-Saxon brooches, from cutting-edge Modernism to the ancient art of the Stone Age, Greenhalgh could--and did--copy it all. Told with great wit and charm, this is the definitive account of Britain's most successful and infamous forger, a man whose love for art saturates every page of this extraordinary memoir.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
In 2007 Shaun Greenhalgh was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. The case shocked the art world, because of the breadth of Shaun’s forgeries. This is his own account of his notorious career, copying Leonardo drawings, Anglo-Saxon brooches, modernist paintings – even Stone Age art. It’s a witty book from a charming rogue, who made his copies in his garden shed, and was able to fool museums and collectors all over the world. Several staff members at Boffins have read this book, and they all loved it.
