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Dr Drewe – a cautionary tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jennifer Booth
Jennifer Booth*
Affiliation:
Sutton, Surrey, UK
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Abstract

My mother-in-law thought I had been arrested; my boss called me paranoid, but there were even more surprising aspects of the Dr Drewe case. This is the story of a con-man who fooled the art world with paintings executed in household emulsion, backed by cut-and-paste photocopies serving as provenance. It sounds incredible but it could happen to any library or archive.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 2003 , pp. 14 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2003

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