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...caught in a trap. Cornish is a painter of the old world. The spirit that motivates him is meaningless in this world, so Cornish escapes by painting in the medieval style and becomes a forger...
...months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation leather-bound diaries arrived. As their excitement grew, Heidemann's estimate of the number of extant volumes more than doubled. Meanwhile, in a small room near Stuttgart, Forger Kujau was laboring furiously, filling ordinary classroom notebooks purchased in East Germany with facts cobbled together from history texts and his own imagination. "Must not forget to get tickets for the Olympic Games for Eva Braun," read one 1936 entry. "On my feet all day long," complained the Fuhrer in another...
DIED. Tom Keating, 66, ebullient, white-bearded master art forger; of a heart attack; in Colchester, England. A modest art restorer, Keating became the center of a scandal in 1976 when the London Times discovered that he had faked and sold at least 13 works, purportedly by Samuel Palmer (1805-81), the English painter. Keating admitted that he had churned out about 2,500 imitation masterpieces in 25 years-at prices as high as $35,000-including paintings in the style of Degas, Renoir, Turner and Constable. Keating's case went to trial in 1979, but charges were dropped...
...NUMBER of angles from which to consider Korean Airlines Flight 007 continues to grow. Forger for the moment questions of who was to blame, who warned or didn't warn whom, how to avoid such tragedies in the future, and so on. Consider this instead...
...Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their way into the hands of John Connally, 66. Now in partnership with Forrest Fenn, owner...