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World Service,23 Oct 2018,19 mins

Confessions of an Art Forger

The Outlook Podcast Archive

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Over many years Shaun Greenhalgh created art forgeries in his garden shed in the English town of Bolton. He fooled the art world into thinking his paintings and sculptures were lost masterpieces by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Gauguin and Degas. The scale and breadth of his work is unprecedented. (Photo credit: Fabio De Paola.)

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