Sean greenhalgh autobiography
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The extraordinary story of one of the greatest living art forgers, who fooled the world's art experts whilst working from a shed in the garden of his parents' house in Bolton, England.
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the brott 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 tantalised the media. What no one realised 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 American 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 an
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Shaun Greenhalgh
British artist and former art forger
This article is about the British art forger. For the Canadian lacrosse player, see Sean Greenhalgh.
Shaun Greenhalgh | |
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| Born | 19 September 1961 Bromley Cross, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Criminal status | Released |
| Parent(s) | George and Olive Greenhalgh |
| Criminal charge | Conspiracy to commit fraud, money laundering |
| Penalty | 4 years and 8 months in prison |
Shaun Greenhalgh (born 1961) is a British artist and former art forger. Over a seventeen-year period, between 1989 and 2006, he produced a large number of forgeries. With the assistance of his brother and elderly parents, who fronted the sales side of the operation, he successfully sold his fakes internationally to museums, auction houses, and private buyers, accruing nearly £1 million.[1]
The family have been described by Scotland Yard as "possibly the most diverse forgery team in the world, ever". However, when they attempted to sell three
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Book Review: A Forger’s Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh is an art memoir with a difference
An art memoir with a difference, A Forger’s Tale doesn’t trace the life and work of a celebrated artist, but that of Shaun Greenhalgh, one of Britain’s most infamous art forgers.
A working class kid from England’s North West, whose backyard workshop was jokingly referred by police as “the northern annex of the British Museum,” Greenhalgh seemed an unlikely candidate for swindling the distinctly upper class art establishment. But a genuine love of art, a dogged determination to achieve an authentic look, and contact with the right (well, technically the wrong) sort of people, saw him create pieces that astounded experts and had them parting with their pounds – albeit for sums far less than what they themselves expected to get once the humble Northerner had left their shop.
Written during a four year prison sentence after Scotland Yard finally caught up to him, A Forger’s Tale