Product Description
As new condition black linen boards with red spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket.
Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Rene Huyghe, former chief curator, Louvre Museum; Prologue and Acknowledgments.
Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates.
"I was lying on the couch falling asleep when I heard a rustling at the front door and someone saying, "Tony? Tony? You there?" I said, "Yeah," and the next thing I knew twenty-five cops burst into my condo.
The first thing one of them said was, " A man just gave you eight thousand dollars in cash.
I'm going to need that back right now.
" It was true, so I handed the money over immediately.
The cops began demolishing my place, slicing up the wallpaper, pulling up the carpets, emptying all the drawers.
The whole time I sat there on my couch sweating bullets, staring up at my secret room, which was reflected in the mirror on the mantlepiece.
The room was in an odd-shaped space behind the upstairs bathroom.
If you pressed #* on the cordless phone, a full-length mirror would pop open and reaveal my secret stash of special papers, pigments, collector stamps, light tables, vintage typewriters, certificates of authenticity, notebooks with signatures - everything a professiaonal art forger might need.
If they had found my secret room, I would have been buried for real.
" - from the rear outer jacket.
"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.
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect.
Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you've ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection.
Tetro's "Rembrants," "Caravaggios," "Miros," and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe.
In 2019, it was revealed that Prince Charles received into his collection a Picasso, Dali, Monet, and Chagall, insuring them for over 200 million pounds, only to late discover that they were actually "Tetros.
" And the kicker? In Tony's words" "Even if some tycoon finds out his Rembrandt is a fake, what's he going to do, turn it in? Now his Rembrandt just became motel art.
Better to keep quiet and pass it on to the next guy.
It's the way things work for guys like me.
" Throughout Tetro's career, his inimitable talent has been coupled with a reckless penchant for drugs, fast cars, and sleeping with other con artists.
He was busted in 1989 and spent four years in court and one in prison.
His voice - rough, wry, deeply authentic - is nothing like the high society he swanned around in, driving his Lamborghinin or Ferrari, hobnobbing with aristocrats by day, and diving into debauchery when the lights went out.
He's a former.
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