Provenance
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archives of
Dubuffet fakes and
Giacometti fakes and
Le Corbusier fakes and
Tate Gallery and
Interpol
investigations of Drewe
Art and Antiques Squad’s
attempt to trap Drewe
Bartos and
Berger and
building of case
circumstantial evidence in
collaborators, search for
credible witnesses, search for
Giacometti fakes and
Goudsmid and
Higgs’s
Mibus and
Myatt and
Nahum and
Palmer and
Palmer’s
Searle’s
second forger
Sperr and
Sutherland fakes and
Irises (van Gogh)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Irving, Clifford
Jaeger, Jean-François
Johns, Jasper
Johnson, Tim
Jones, Mark
Josephson, Brian
Kay, Janet
Keating, Tom
Klee fakes
Konigsberg, David
Koons, Jeff
Koopman, Catherine “Toto”
Lander, Stephen
Lapin Agile (Picasso)
Le Corbusier fakes
legal appeal, Drewe’s
Leicester Galleries
Leslie & Collier Partners
Levy, Maxine
Lewison, Jeremy
Liebermann fakes
Loeb, Albert
Lord, James
Lowry fakes
Lustig, Victor
Macaroni case
McGregor, Gregor
Madonna of the Veil, A (Botticelli fake)
Mail on Sunday
Maskell, Sheila
Massey, Anne
Mastering the Art
Matisse fakes
McAlister, Bill
Meegeren, Han van
Melville, Herman
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mexican (Nicholson fake) Christie’s and
Meyer, Hans
MI5
Mibus, Adrian
Bissières fakes and
de Staël fakes and
Drewe and
Drewe investigation and
Sutherland fakes and
Michelangelo
Millbank Penitentiary
Miller, Lee
Mills, John
Minnelli, Vincente
Mock, Jean-Yves
Monet, Claude
Moore, Henry
Morland, Dorothy
Morning on the Seine (Monet)
Mossad
Muensterberger, Werner
museums, chain of ownership archives
Myatt, Amy
Myatt, John
appearance and manner of
artistic background of
Baumeister fakes of
Bissières fakes of
Braques fakes of
childhood of
compartmentalized life of
complicity of
de Staël fakes of
Drewe and, break between
Drewe and, first meeting
Drewe and, relationship between
Drewe investigation and
Dubuffet fakes of
Dufy fakes of
early fakes of
early suspicions of Drewe
earnings of
fakes of, initial provenance problems of
Giacometti fakes of . See Giacometti fakes
Gleizes fakes of
Goudsmid names
imprisonment of
Klee fakes of
Le Corbusier fakes of
legitimate art career of
Liebermann fakes of
Lowry fakes of
Matisse fakes of
Monet fakes of
musical career of
Nicholson fakes of
number of fakes
paint used by
personal life of
post-Drewe life of
quality of work
religious awakening of
remarriage of
Reynolds fakes of
Searle and
Segal fakes of
sentence for
sentence served by
Sutherland fakes of
techniques of
television deals of
transaction records of
trial of
Turner fakes of
unexposed fakes of
Volpe and
work habits of
worries of
Myatt, Rosemary
Myatt, Sam
My Search (Pollock)
Nahum, Peter
Belman and
Drewe and
Drewe investigation and
fraud suspicions of
professional background of
National Art Library
National Library
Neeser, Martine
New Scotland Yard
Art and Antiques Squad. See Art and Antiques Squad
Crime Museum
Serious and Organised Crime Unit
Nicholson, Ben
Nicholson fakes Barndance. See Barndance
Drewe and
Gimpel and
Mexican. See Mexican
provenance fabrications for
Norseland Industries
Obelisk Gallery
O’Brien, Michael
O’Hana, Jacques
O’Hana catalog. See “Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Stage Designs . . .”
O’Hana Galleries
Order of the Servants of Mary
paint aging techniques
Palmer, Mary Lisa
appearance and manner of
Bartos and
Booth and
Drewe investigation and
Drewe’s correspondence with
Giacometti’s catalogue raisonné and
gossip about
investigation of Giacometti fakes by
Searle and
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Pasha, Tewfik
pathological lying
Patrologiae Cursus Completus
Penrose, Roland
Pentonville
Phillips auction house
Picasso, Pablo
catalogue raisonné of
Pierre Loeb Gallery
Pierre Matisse Gallery
Pissarro, Camille
Pissarro, Lelia
Pollock, Jackson
Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy (Gainsborough)
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux (van Gogh)
Portrait of an Army Doctor (Gleizes)
Portrait of a Woman (Giacometti fake)
Portrait of Dr. Gachet (van Gogh)
Power, E. J.
press coverage of case
Private Eye
product disparagement
provenance
Drewe’s fabrications . See also “Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Stage Designs . . .”; specific artists
pseudologia phantastica
Psychology of Fraud, The
rare books
Rauschenberg, Robert
Read, Herbert
Reddihough, Cyril
Redfern, Paul
Regina v. John Drewe, John Myatt, and Daniel Stoakes. See trial of Drewe, Myatt, and Stoakes
restoration
Resurrection, Cookham, The (Spencer)
Reynolds, Joshua
Riley, Bridget
Rivlin, Geoffrey
Rizzo, Bob
Ronner-Knip, Henriëtte
Rose, Ben
runners. See dealers and runners
Saarinen, Aline
St. Philip’s Priory
Saito, Ryoei
Sartre, Jean-Paul
sayanim
> Schnabel, Julian
Searle, Jonathan
Barlow and
Booth and
Drewe investigation of
Ellis and
Goudsmid and
interrogation of Drewe by
Macaroni case and
Mibus and
Myatt and
Nahum and
on necessity of fakes
Palmer and
personal life of
retirement of
trial of Drewe and
Segal fakes
Self-Portrait with Dog (Hogarth)
Serota, Nicholas
Shaw, George Bernard
“Silly Games” (song)
Sky TV
Smoker (Wesselmann)
Sotheby’s
Giacometti fakes and
reputation of
Standing Nude, 1955 and
South African High Commission
Southwark Crown Court
Special Branch
Spencer, Stanley
Sperr, John
Spring Woodland (Bissières fake)
Staël, Madame de
Staël, Nicolas de
fakes of. See de Staël fakes
Standing Man and Tree (Giacometti fake), provenance fabrications of
Standing Nude, 1954 (Giacometti fake)
Palmer’s investigation of
provenance fabrications for
Standing Nude, 1955 (Giacometti fake)
Bartos and
Christie’s and
Palmer and
provenance fabrications for
Sotheby’s and
Standing Nude, 1956 (Giacometti fake)
Stern, David
Stern Pissarro Gallery
Stoakes, Daniel (Hugh Roderick)
acquittal of
arrest of
Drewe and
Drewe and, break between
failures of
name change of
trial of
Summerson, John
Sussman, Helen
Sussman, Howard
Sutherland, Graham
Sutherland fakes
Christie’s and
Drewe and
Drewe investigation and
Mibus and
provenance fabrications for
Sylvester, David
Taglialatella, Dominic
Taliban
Tate, Henry
Tate Gallery
archives of
Bissières fakes and
brand marketing collaborations
collections of
Drewe and
history of
ICA and
location of
reinvigoration of
Taubman, Alfred
Thatcher, Margaret
Thaw, Eugene
Thomas, Dylan
Thompson, William
Tinguely, Jean
Tominaga, Horoko
Town, Norman
trial of Drewe, Myatt, and Stoakes
building of case for
closing argument
cross-examination of Drewe
date of
defense strategies during
defense witnesses
Drewe’s mother and children at
Drewe’s nervous tic during
Drewe’s self-representation during
evidence for
fakes chosen as evidence in
Goudsmid at
length of
Myatt at
press coverage of
prosecution case
prosecution witnesses
Searle at
sentence for Drewe
sentence for Myatt
Stoakes at
summary of case
verdict of
witnesses
Trois Femmes à la Fontaine (Picasso)
Turner, Henry
Turner fakes
typewriters, Drewe’s use of
Unilever Series
Ustinov, Peter
Vermeer, Jan
Victoria and Albert Museum
Volpe, Miki
arrest of Drewe by Ellis and
interrogation of Drewe by
Myatt and
personal life of
style of
transfer of
wraps up case
Volpe, Robert
Waddington, Leslie
war fibbers
Warhol, Andy
watermarks
Watson, Peter
Wechsler, Andrew
Welles, Orson
Wesselmann, Tom
Wildenstein Gallery
Willard Gallery
Yo Picasso (Picasso)
Zagel, Jane
appearance and manner of
Nicholson fakes and
Zagreb museum
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Aly Sujo, who passed away late last year after this manuscript was completed, and Laney Salisbury were a husband-and-wife writing team. The son of a New York art gallery owner, Sujo was a journalist for twenty years, covering arts, entertainment, and foreign news for Reuters, the Associated Press, and the New York Daily News. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Salisbury worked for Reuters and the Associated Press, reporting from Africa, the Middle East, and New York. She is the coauthor of The Cruelest Miles, which is in development as a major motion picture. Salisbury lives with their daughter in upstate New York.
1 About $400 at the time. The exchange rate for U.S. dollars to British pounds varied widely from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, ranging from highs of well over $2.00:£1.00 to lows of less than $1.10:£1.00. For much of the period, $1.50:£1.00 is a useful if rough rule of thumb, but readers interested in more exact conversion figures can find them on the Web site research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt.
2 Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. In 1986, when an artist named J. S. G. Boggs exhibited several of his drawings of £10, £5, and £1 notes, the police seized them and arrested him on charges of counterfeiting. Two decades later, when Norwegian artist Jan Christensen made a painting consisting of Norwegian banknotes stuck on canvas, it was snapped up by a collector for $16,300, its exact face value. When the piece was shown at an Oslo gallery, thieves broke in and stole the banknotes, leaving the frame behind.
Christensen was not surprised: “I wanted to make a blunt work with the intention of creating a discussion about the value of art, and about capitalism, and how the art world works,” he told the BBC. “It proves my theory that I have made an artwork that has a value outside the gallery space.”
3 Christopher Mason. The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby’s-Christie’s Auction House Scandal. New York: Berkley Books, 2005, p. 51.
4 Mason, Art of the Steal, p. 50. works during his lifetime, would have been amazed. The 1980s sale history of works by Vincent van Gogh was like a helium balloon soaring into the sky. The artist’s 1890 glowing blue Portrait of Adeline Ravoux had sold for $441,000 in 1966 and five times that when it changed hands again in 1980. By 1988, the price had risen sixfold, to $13.75 million, a more than 3,000 percent increase over the original sale price.
5 Just a few years later, in 1990, Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet would be auctioned off for $82.5 million to Ryoei Saito, a Japanese industrialist who spent a few hours with his purchase, then put it in a crate and locked it in a climate-controled vault in a top-secret storeroom in Tokyo.
6 Mibus no doubt knew that similar caches of artworks could be found all over the world. London, Paris, New York, and Tokyo were dotted with anonymous storage depots where dealers routinely stashed their best works until the market was ready to pay the right price. These gloomy treasure troves, which often called to mind the interior of a state prison, ranged from modest warehouses to much larger operations manned by discreet uniformed attendants riding prewar elevators. One such facility in New York was said to be filled quite literally to the rafters with t
housands of priceless works, some of which had not seen the light of day in decades. The occasional thefts, almost always inside jobs, were kept quiet and in the family.
7 Neither the alleged affair, assault charge, nor prison sentence could be verified.
8 War fibbers are not confined to Britain. According to a 2001 Guardian article by Duncan Campbell, thousands of American fabricators claimed to have taken part in the Vietnam War. In a notable example, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Patrick Couwenberg was removed from the bench in 2001 after it was determined that he had lied to get his job, claiming he was a decorated Vietnam War veteran who had received the Purple Heart for a groin injury sustained in battle. He had also claimed that he had worked undercover for the CIA in Laos in the 1960s, that he had studied law at Loyola, and that he had a master’s degree in psychology. These were all lies. At hearings to determine whether he should remain on the bench, Couwenberg’s defense lawyers argued that he was suffering from pseudologia phantastica. Other well-known war fibbers include the historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Ellis, who was suspended from his university job after inventing a Vietnam War past for himself. (He said he had been a platoon commander near My Lai, the site of the notorious mass killing by U.S. soldiers.) Chicago District judge Michael O’Brien falsely claimed to be a medal of honor winner and was forced to step down in 1995, after fourteen years on the bench. Toronto Blue Jays manager Tim Johnson was fired after his claims about Vietnam War combat turned out to be bogus. War liars are often caught because of the grandiosity of their boasts—for example, that they belonged to elite units such as the Special Forces, Britain’s SAS, the U.S. Navy SEALs, or the CIA, claims that for the most part can be verified.
9 Lyn Cole. Contemporary Legacies: An Incomplete History of the ICA 1947-1990, unpublished.
10 David Mellor, ed. Fifty Years of the Future: A Chronicle of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1998.
11 See www.genesisp-orridge.com. Web site of Genesis P-Orridge, a founding artist of COUM Transmissions, a performance art group that created the ICA show.
12 Dan Hofstadter, “A Life Unlike His Art,” New York Times Book Review, Sept. 22, 1985, a review of James Lord’s biography Giacometti.
13 Ibid.
14 Thomas Hoving. False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
15 Although instrumental to the police investigation, Sotheby’s declined to comment for this book.