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Authors: Anthony M. Amore
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (34 page)
(Credit: U.S. Department of Justice)
A fake of Picasso’s
La Femme au Chapeau Bleu
(The Woman in the Blue Hat),
unwittingly created by a trompe l’oeil artist for dealer Tatiana Khan. Khan told the artist it was needed to aid the police, then attempted to pass it off as an authentic Picasso.
About the Author
Anthony M. Amore
is an expert in security matters and head of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He is the co-author of
Stealing Rembrandts
, a
Wall Street Journal
bestseller. Before joining the Gardner Museum in 2005, Amore worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and was a Special Agent with the Federal Aviation Administration. He lives in Boston, MA.
THE ART OF THE CON.
Copyright © Anthony M. Amore, 2015. All rights reserved. For information, address Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Jacket photographs © Grant Faint/Getty Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Amore, Anthony M.
The art of the con : the most notorious fakes, frauds, and forgeries in the art world / Anthony M. Amore.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-137-27987-3 (hardback)
1. Art—Forgeries. 2. Art thefts. I. Title.
N8790.A46 2015
702.8’74—dc23
2014046676
e-ISBN 978-1-4668-7911-9
First edition: July 2015
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