The UK’s Greatest Art Forgers Reveal Their Secrets

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Forgery is one of the greatest challenges the art world faces today, with fakes and misattributions estimated to be as high as 50% of all works in the market.
Before his arrest, Billy “The Brush” Mumford forged over 1000 pieces that made their way across the globe. His best friend David Henty had equally thrived selling his fakes on eBay, with one of his Picasso copies recently going up for auction at £1 million.
Sydney Lima meets the two convicted forgers as they work to create a knock-off piece of art that could be accepted as real. Then she takes the piece to a forensic lab to see whether they can tell it’s a fake.
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@kenydemeza Жыл бұрын

The artists were charming

@nathandundore7817 2 жыл бұрын

The forensic lady was sorta snoty. I'd rather hang out with the chill excons.

@danielartist123 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful segment!

@demonatemu 3 жыл бұрын

if you've got millions to spend on art... yeah that's on you for not doing your due diligence

@rella9081 3 жыл бұрын

14:07 but so many artists died before there work got famous so aren’t galleries or collectors doing the same thing. shit maybe wen my art is 100 years old someone will be selling it for millions even though I died broke and happy😂

@bhirawamaylana466 2 жыл бұрын

ikr seriously if we look at history these old art from already dead artist either life in poverty at the time or barely make enough money for art supply and food, even Beethoven struggle in his life not only from deaf in his 31 but also his financial which make him drop out from his study.

@anthonyclegg1511 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see the art experts duped.

@1977ajax 8 ай бұрын

People often forget that if the 'experts' were actually experts, they wouldn't need all that scientific gubbins, they would just be able to tell by looking!

@barrybark3995 Жыл бұрын

i only once copied a famous painting,it was a really strange but awful feeling when it turned out so accurately good.iv never done it again ,done my own stuff ever since altho just sell ok no big money i am happyer that way

@dennismucilla Жыл бұрын

Nowadays arts are treated as souvenirs from that master and NOT art to be enjoyed…Does it make sense anyone ???🙌🏼

@bhirawamaylana466 2 жыл бұрын

9:27 I also cannot argue that, I mean these old art from dead artist who not only life in poverty or barely make enough for food, have mental issue and die without any honor or respect they got now day when their works became so famous while these collector and museum make million from just display it.

@maximhollandnederlandthene7640 Жыл бұрын

That salvator Mundi painting 😅🤗 A copy of a total "restored" artwork 🤔

@justincarter1217 3 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail looks like an snl sketch

@realryder2626 3 жыл бұрын

It's vice.. 95% of their videos since they sold out come across as an snl skit or just parody

@leakwonderland4999 3 жыл бұрын

@@realryder2626 sold out?

@realryder2626 3 жыл бұрын

@@leakwonderland4999 vice went woke.. now they going broke

@barrymak8061 4 ай бұрын

These copies could not fool a child....garbage

@sahilbantawa2573 3 жыл бұрын

Why was this reuploaded?

@codent 3 жыл бұрын

It's a copy of the original. Look closely and you can see the dog hairs.

@667hodge 9 ай бұрын

2 criminals shaking hands...Since when did Harley Quinn start interviewing art forgers?😄

@violinhunter2 Жыл бұрын

Nett. Ja. I love the art of art forgery because it fools the pretentious "experts."

@TheFiown 2 жыл бұрын

What is a fake picture ? Surely a picture is a picture and should be seen for it's artistic merit and not simply because it is 'worth' something, that's not how it works. You can still sit on a 'fake' Louis XVI chair, it's still a chair, you can still put things into a 'fake' Louis Vuitton handbag, it's still a handbag. As for the 'experts, they have been getting it wrong for centuries! Don't get me started on auction houses, organised crime at it's best, jsut read the disclaimers are the end of the catoalgues !

@halfpiint Жыл бұрын

Sounds simple but if you spending a lot of money on an investment, If it's a fake you've just thrown away a lot of $$$ on a bad investment

@TheFiown Жыл бұрын

@@halfpiint Would you trust a used car salesman ? If you spend millions on something then you do the homework, you check and double check. Investement in art has a lot to do with ego.

@halfpiint Жыл бұрын

@@TheFiown What's that got to do with the subject of this post? Maybe you need to reread the OP! Your reply only states the obvious and it's worded as if you're talking to an ignorant child, so it makes no sense and I find it rather insulting. OH!!! Are you referring to when King Charles got swindled out of millions he spent on fake masterpieces?

@kevinhaid6211 Жыл бұрын

Not if no one ever discovers that your investment is a fake, 's why so many original Hebborns and such still hang in museums today. It not only looks bad when an expert or museum admits that they got it wrong or displayed a fake that fooled the authentication process, but it makes future investors, lenders, insurance companies etc all very leery to do further business on pieces with questionable provenance. Most fakes that have already passed muster, will go unchecked by science and the "experts". The saudi prince won't even let anyone look at his $450,000,000 fake lol, it was supposed to be displayed next to the mona lisa, then be the centerpiece of the new saudi art museum...instead it's been missing for 5 years, when experts noted that it was likely mostly painted by a student - well after the sale, because that's how the art world works lol.

@cetanacetana8265 9 ай бұрын

Clifford Irving's Fake: The Story of Elmyr de Hory ..is all about this - it's a great read

@nova3530onyt 3 жыл бұрын

She looks like that Suicide Squad girl

@Myjourneybeatingcancer Жыл бұрын

No max brandrett

@RedBikelane 3 жыл бұрын

She's so cute

@mjolninja9358 3 жыл бұрын

She used to be an adult performer

@hwaiting6759 3 жыл бұрын

@@mjolninja9358 title

@jackjones544 Жыл бұрын

So at 2 and a half minutes in, Billy says he doesn't do art anymore and then concedes that some of what he does do may look a bit like other peoples art. He's having a laugh and sticking two fingers up to the establishment, the rich goons that feel they are entitled to control all the wealth in the world and what is deemed to be good taste. It's hilarious when the garage door goes up and there are a stack of Claude Venards in the middle, not to mention the tubs of rusty nails. These guys are diamonds and funny too but I don't think the paintings are going to fool any experts, it's more a case of nice affordable lookalikes for us that can't dream of owning the real thing. Good on them.

@peterbradshaw8018 10 ай бұрын

Knoedler sold fakes for years.

@regmunday8354 3 ай бұрын

Nothing illegal about copying the STYLE and TECHNIQUES of great Masters. Copying isnt forgery and fraud. Thousands of people would love a good imitation on their walls. All the painter has to do is avoid deception, stick your real name on the back and date.

@urszulagromadzka9880 3 жыл бұрын

A to są ci po wojenni biedni ludzie. Co chodzą po całym swiecie i autografy fałszuje

@AUGUSTALLEN28 Жыл бұрын

That was not thee Salvator Mundi that sold for 450 ML,but a copy. I wish they had made that clearer.

@jackjones544 Жыл бұрын

That would only need to be made clear to an absolute moron, seeing as this clip is about a man painting versions of famous paintings in his house in Saltdean. You however feel that it should be made clear that among his paintings, that he painted, in his home that there just might be a piece worth 450 million pounds laying around on the floor. Yeah Ok.

@robert4724 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone fooled by those obvious fakes deserved to be scammed.

@bobstar6837 2 жыл бұрын

She's tidy.

@johnjohnson3709 8 ай бұрын

Forgery makes you a very good artist. Show me some original paintings they did. Not copies!

@priyalasingh617 3 жыл бұрын

Second

@hansvetter8653 Жыл бұрын

No comparison to Wolfgang Beltracchi!

@Gemat33 Жыл бұрын

That fake Caravaggio in the beginning looks so bad, not even close.

@itsaya7155 3 жыл бұрын

first

@priyalasingh617 3 жыл бұрын

The soul of every dead artist must be crying everytime they make a fake painting.

@jamessinclair1826 Жыл бұрын

Two amateurs; poor show with talking head. Check out Elmyr de Hoary.

@jackjones544 Жыл бұрын

@@englishorchard-haze4708 Yep, these boys are like fun time Freddy and the keystone cops. Nice guys and I could have a giggle with them but these are not fakes, not even close.

@ericafors6039 Жыл бұрын

Not meaning to be pedantic but the artist’s name is Elmyr de Hory. Born April 14, 1906 - unalived himself December 11, 1976. For my money, Hans van Meegeren deserves mention as a master forger of the 20th Century.