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The Art of Forgery

The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers

by Noah Charney · first published 2015

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  • Meerax · Jun 19, 2020 · Recommends

    I recently finished reading "The Art of Forgery" by Noah Charney and that is the exact same feeling I had. Great book, very interesting, but it will leave you curious and perhaps a little doubtful about all art that you look at afterwards. Things like…

    on “Berlin Gold Hat” ↗
  • dguest · May 22, 2023 · Mentions

    …and sell it. Not to say he wasn't greedy. I would say the more direct point was > "(Dalí) was completely money obsessed, to the point of a mania,” said Noah Charney, an art historian and author of The Art of Forgery. but I'm not really sure being good at logistics makes you greedy.

    on “Why Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist in the world” ↗

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