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# Read * Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger by Ken Perenyi ó eBook or Kindle ePUB. Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger An amiable forger spills the secrets of the trade - but little of his soul Ken Perenyi grew up in New Jersey, failed at school and seemed destined for obscurity when as a teenager he fell in with some of the drug-soaked denizens of the swinging sixties who turned him on first to acid and then to art.In this readable but somehow elusive memoir, we learn of Perenyi's astonishing career as a forger and many of the secrets of his trade -- but we learn little to nothing of Perenyi himself. It's inter
| Title | : | Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1605983608 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off.Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds.In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.”Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Cav
The trick, he learned, was the peripheral details: the materials to which the canvas was fixed, the frame, a faux-aged stain. (Kirkus Reviews)An extraordinary memoir is to reveal how a gifted artist managed to forge his way to riches by conning high-profile auctioneers, dealers and collectors over four decades. Some of his paintings reached the upper echelons of the art world and were brokered or bought by famous auction houses.“I never told them the paintings were for real,” Perenyi said to his lawyers in the 1990s, when he found himself at the center of an FBI investigation. His astonishing memoir, Caveat Emptor, is by turns horrifying and hilarious. How much is “America’s first and only great art forger,” as the jacket copy describes the author, willing to reveal? Quite a lot, it seems. (The Wall S
A series of fateful events resulted in what was to become a thirty-year career as a professional art forger. Today he operates his own studio in Madeira Beach, Florida. . Born in 1949 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Ken Perenyi is a self-taught artist who painted his first pictures during the Summer of Love in 1967, having discovered an uncanny ability to intuitively grasp the aesthetic and technical aspects of the Old Masters
An amiable forger spills the secrets of the trade - but little of his soul Ken Perenyi grew up in New Jersey, failed at school and seemed destined for obscurity when as a teenager he fell in with some of the drug-soaked denizens of the swinging sixties who turned him on first to acid and then to art.In this readable but somehow elusive memoir, we learn of Perenyi's astonishing career as a forger and many of the secrets of his trade -- but we learn little to nothing of Perenyi himself. It's interesting the way he manages to reveal so much and so little at the same time.Unlike Han van Meegeren, possibly the world's most famous art swi. Taylor McNeil said Buyer Beware. Well into his career as an art forger, Ken Perenyi meets a reclusive, eccentric art collector living in Piermont, New York, in the Hudson Valley. Perenyi quotes Jimmy, the collector, as saying that art dealers "are a bunch of prostitutes. And their primary appreciation of a picture is its price tag." That serves as a leitmotif for Caveat Emptor, and indeed, the buyer should beware. Perenyi found his calling as an artist making fake paintings, first in the style of 17th century Dutch portraits, then moving into 19th century American and British art. In this en. Interesting notes on art collecting, art history and forgery. W. Frazier This book is an autobiography of a con man, a hustler and forger, whose natural bent towards art defines his career. Obviously talented, the author crafts his story with interesting details about art history and art restoration, and gives clever insights into the business of art collecting. On the negative side, his flippant ownership of everything nefarious casts a subtle "ew" factor. At the end, you are left with an uneasy feeling, as maybe you are part of another con.
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