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The Secret Life of An American Art Forger
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Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, Ken Perenyi, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters, confesses and describes his thirty-year career as a professional art forger.
Imprint:
New York - Pegasus Books
Pages:
314
Edition:
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed
ISBN:
9781605983608, 1605983608
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Ken Perenyi
Characteristics:
314 p., [32] p. of plates :,ill. (some col.) ;,24 cm
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Add a CommentDetails fascinating of how he faked the art. Few insights tho into him personalty.
Perenyi exhibits zero remorse and thinks awfully highly of himself, despite the fact that he never forged first-rate artists. Still, this is a very interesting tale of how a man with no formal artistic training managed to fool the big auction houses with his "English country" and "early American" paintings - the kinds of things Ralph Lauren-era decorators loved to put in their clients' homes. Sadly, these fakes are likely to muddy the waters for decades for anyone seeking genuine knowledge of the painters he mimicked.