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  • The Conman: The Extraordinary Story How One Amateur with a Pot of Emulsion Paint Mixed with KY Jelly Fooled the Art Experts See large image

    The Conman: The Extraordinary Story How One Amateur with a Pot of Emulsion Paint Mixed with KY Jelly Fooled the Art Experts (Paperback) By (author) Laney Salisbury, By (author) Aly Sujo

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    Short Description for The ConmanHow does the art market work? It is a mystery to most, but this did not deter conman John Drewe. This meticulously researched book uncovers both the day to day business of art galleries and, in a riveting tale, how the conman perpetrated his decade-long fraud.
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  • When a school teacher put a modest advertisement in Private Eye as a painter of 'genuine fakes', he had no idea that it would lead to him becoming a willing part of the biggest art fraud in Britain. Among one of the few people who responded was the mysterious and magnetic John Drewe, apparently a Professor and inventor with impressive connections. But really Drewe was a conman who was soon to take in the British Modern Art World with a scam that would last a decade. Drewe, who knew, at first, little about the art world discovered that the art itself didn't really make any difference but it was the documentation of a work that mattered. He commissioned some 200 works from Myatt who worked with B&Q emulsion paint, mixed in with KY jelly, over a decade. It was only a naked a woman and a microwaved goldfish that would end the scam!