False Impressions

Description for FALSE IMPRESSIONS: THE HUNT FOR BIG-TIME ART FAKES by Thomas Hoving:

With his trademark humor and irreverence, the author of "The New York Times" bestseller, MAKING THE MUMMIES DANCE, delves into the underbelly of the art world to reveal the appalling scams, the duplicitous perpetrators, and the hapless dupes, from the beginning of civilization to the present.