Shaun greenhalgh autobiography of a face

In an unassuming garden shed that sat in the back garden of a council house on the edge of Bolton, art history was made.

There, over a period of several decades, all kinds of art; paintings, ceramics, bronzes, reliefs and sculptures were produced by the supremely talented (if somewhat deceitful and misguided) Shaun Greenhalgh.

Unsurpassed in their variety, quality and sheer inventiveness, these forgeries fooled many art critics and dealers all over the world, being sold to museums, auction houses, private buyers and collectors, all hailed as long-lost masterpieces.

His career as an ‘official forger’ began in 1989 and during the following seventeen years Shaun created and (with the help of his parents), sold a prolific amount of art worth almost a million pounds.

It’s a tale almost too fantastical to be true, but the shunned and frustrated shy young man whose art was scoffed at and w A Forger's Tale : The Memoir of One of Britain's Most ...

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