well groundbreaking exhibition currently on display at the Springfield museums
spotlight some other worlds most notorious con artists examines how their
talents charm and on
cassidy butt dialed art world for much of the 20th century
through the present-day connecting point contributor Jerry Boeing from WGBH
brings us the story about intent to deceive
lining the walls at the Springfield museums are the cleaning market have
lines up a dick Leon E
or is this the work and the troubled Italian master
here hangs a piece by the iconic French artist to lose the track
or is it here in the new exhibition intent to deceive
the lines are more than blurred they're inspired
mimicked and forged on these walls you'll find some of the world's greatest
artists
alongside the frauds who successfully taken them on
how prevalent is forgery in today's market I'm
in today's market this statistic is that on the market right now
thirty to forty percent up the works are forged this is a show that's created
rumbling in the art and museum world's
an exhibition that dares to pull back the curtain on the Graham
and often embarrassing reality that for as long as there have been great artists
there have been equally great 4 jours making a fortune
on their heels one of the interesting things about them
is that technically they're very good
and when you walk round the show you would think that some of this work
is authentic heather has school is director of the tumour Museum of Fine
Arts
which like most museums around the world has identified forgeries
in its own collections over the years and what's the statistic for museums
in terms of the order I don't know what the statistic is for museums certainly
the supporters however
win they are interviewed say their workers hang in museums
anyone technology which ones now head
intent to deceive examines art fraud by way of summer the 20th century's
greatest 4 jours
man who were good artists but not good enough
for these artists at least a number them
what they were very disappointed that the are
world the traditional art world did not recognize their talent
and so this was a way to sorta
get back at those established experts
no murder were repainted roughly a thousand takes before his 1976 suicide
purchased by an unsuspecting collector his quote unquote modigliani
was eventually donated to a Miami museum word hun
unquestioned for 12 years says curator Julia Courtney
my dick Leon E because of his style how we approached
painting was pretty easy to forge
so that's another thing reporters look for is
masters that they can replicate fairly easily without having to have a
really on that having to do too much homework unwittingly only because the
shapes are pretty
large the lines and everything we're easy for forgers to replicate
and this one is quite good and you know when we actually impacted we're all like
that
undertake 231 sell it even people that's momentarily
a premier vermeer forger in the nineteen thirties and forties
high on von me grin was both masterful and
audacious because vermeer didn't create that many works
then be grand fabricated paintings
rather than copied them in the style a Vermeer
and he actually created a who time period and premiers career that didn't
exist
which came to be known as the religious period
today Sciences is on doing the baikal a plastic he mixed in with his pain to
give his campus is an aged look
now causes them to bend he also went an extra step and he would actually paint
on campuses that had paintings on them before they were older
so the surface was cracked so he would YUM
paint on the surface of the campus that was already Alderney
and he will roll them up and that would create this they remodeled surfaced that
you associate with an older painting
there is one story every dimension here and that's in the guys have John Myatt
convicted in 1999 for fraud he served a one-year sentence
and is now an acclaimed legitimate artist painting the girl with the Pearl
Earring
just because he can how well does he succeed here
I think he's pretty darn close I think if you hadn't seen it said anything it
just on book covers and whatnot
it would be very convincing she's a bit larger than the original
woman she's a bit more of Center and a lot more boo
towns are used in this painting them that are used in the original
my it now lectures on forgery and paints so-called genuine fakes
but his legacy looms darkly some 200 have his forgeries entered the art
market
120 have those are still out there
for connecting point I'm Jared bone