Caveat Emptor Lib/E: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger (Audiobook)

from michigantrumpet

Ken Perenyi relates his many years as an art forger, providing many details as to how exactly he was able to fool many of the top collectors and auction houses in the world. The passing of applicable statutes of limitations has freed him up to tell his tales of derring-do. Not so certain the same...

from knfmn

This was a really fantastic book that seemed to have been written especially for me. The writing is straight forward and interesting. The author threw in enough tidbits about antique paintings and the process of imitating them to keep me turning the pages. I highly recommend this book for anyone ...

from cjordan916

How much is "America's first and only great art forger," as the jacket copy describes the author, willing to reveal? Quite a lot, it seems. Perenyi, a graduate of a New Jersey technical school and a Vietnam draft dodger, fell in with a band of artistic New Yorkers and began imitating long-gone ma...

from ChristineEllei

What led me to this book was the book description itself ... "Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a...

from DanDiercks

I had to consciously resist the urge to allow my review of this book to be tainted by my feelings for the scumbag who wrote it. That's why I gave it three stars. It was a pretty decent story, but the guy who lived it is truly a low life. My first hint of that was when he revealed that one of his ...