Art of the Heist
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Art of the Heist

"Inside the art world's biggest thefts"

Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw and studies the masterpieces coveted by the criminal world.

3. The Forger and the Conman

The Forger and the Conman
0.0Mar 17, 2006 · 55 min

For more than a decade two Englishmen conned a gullible art market with fakes and forgeries. Art teacher John Myatt produced over two hundred fake paintings by leading 20th-century artists. John Drewe forged the provenance of the paintings to make Myatt’s fakes seem genuine.