Bibliograph

Con/artist, the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger, Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi

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Con/artist, the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger, Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi

Language

eng

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autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Con/artist

Oclc number

1350746821

Responsibility statement

Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi

Sub title

the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger

Summary

"The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters--exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio"--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Prologue (April 18, 1989) -- "Now you're gonna sleep in it" (1950 to 1969) -- Fulton--with palm trees (1969 to 1972) -- Fake! (1972) -- My apprenticeship (1972 to 1975) -- The last laugh (1972 to 1975) -- Printing money (1977) -- The drug kingpin of upland (1979) -- The adventurers (1979)-- Provenance (1981) -- The wild west (1982) -- Over the top (1985) -- The Prince of Fugazi (1986) -- Actually printing money (1987) -- Schizophrenic life (1987) -- My Caravaggio (1987) -- Things go bad (1988) -- The bug detector (1988) -- Yamagata (1988) -- The bust (1989) -- Aftermath (1989) -- My trial (1989 to 1991) -- Back to square one (1993) -- Out and down (1994 to 1999) -- The birth of Tony Montana (the 2000s) -- The Prince's Fugazis (2014 to 2020) -- Finale

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Con artistLife and crimes of the world's greatest art forger

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