num_pages: 288
description: The worlds most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the mastersexposing 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 youve ever seen in a museum gallery or private collection. Tetros Rembrandts 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 later discover that theyre actually Tetros. And the kicker? In Tonys Even if some tycoon finds out his Rembrandt is a fake whats 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. Its the way things work for guys like me. The Prince Charles scandal is the subject of a forthcoming feature documentary with Academy Award nominee Kief Davidson and coauthor Giampiero Ambrosi in cooperation with Tetro.Throughout Tetros 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 voicerough wry deeply authenticis nothing like the high society he swanned around in driving his Lamborghini or Ferrari hobnobbing with aristocrats by day and diving into debauchery when the lights went out. Hes a former furniture store clerk who can walk around in Caravaggios shoes become Picasso or Monet with an encyclopedic understanding of their paint their canvases their vision. For years he hid it all in an unassuming California townhouse with a secret art room behind a full-length mirror. (Press #* on his phone and the mirror pops open.) Pairing up with coauthor Ambrosi one of the investigative journalists who uncovered the 2019 scandal Tetro unveils the art world in an epic alluring at times unbelievable but all-true narrative.
language: English
title: Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
publisher: Hachette Books