A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781760295288)

In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court case, the breadth of his forgeries shocked the art world and tantalized the media. What no one realzsed was how much more of the story there was to tell. Written in prison, A Forger's Tale details Shaun's notorious career and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it. From Leonardo drawings to L.S. Lowry paintings, from busts of U.S. presidents to Anglo-Saxon brooches, from cutting-edge Modernism to the ancient art of the Stone Age, Greenhalgh could--and did--copy it all. Told with great wit and charm, this is the definitive account of Britain's most successful and infamous forger, a man whose love for art saturates every page of this extraordinary memoir.

Author: Shaun Greenhalgh
ISBN-10: 1760295280
ISBN-13: 9781760295288
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2018
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2018 pg. 6
Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 65