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John Myatt, the Glossary

Index John Myatt

John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century".[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 49 relations: Albert Gleizes, Alberto Giacometti, Archive, Art exhibition, Art forgery, Artist, Auction house, BBC News, Ben Nicholson, Certificate of authenticity, Christie's, Claude Monet, Confession (law), Conviction, Criminal conspiracy, Dennis Bovell, Diego Velázquez, Emulsion, Fraud, Graham Sutherland, Henri Matisse, Ian Brown, Impressionism, Janet Kay, Jean Dubuffet, John Drewe, K-Y Jelly, Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, Nicolas de Staël, Paul Cézanne, Portrait, Post-Impressionism, Private Eye, Provenance, Reigate, Roger Bissière, Scotland Yard, Silly Games, Sky Arts, Sotheby's, Staffordshire, Stephen Fry, Surrey, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, United Kingdom, Vincent van Gogh.

  2. English art forgers

Albert Gleizes

Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.

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Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.

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Art exhibition

An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience.

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Art forgery

Art forgery is the creation and sale of works of art which are falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Auction house

An auction house is a business establishment that facilitates the buying and selling of assets, such as works of art and collectibles.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Ben Nicholson

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. John Myatt and Ben Nicholson are 20th-century English male artists.

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Certificate of authenticity

A certificate of authenticity (COA) is a seal or small sticker on a proprietary computer program, t-shirt, jersey, or any other memorabilia or art work, especially in the world of computers and sports.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

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Confession (law)

In the law of criminal evidence, a confession is a statement by a suspect in crime which is adverse to that person.

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Conviction

In law, a conviction is the determination by a court of law that a defendant is guilty of a crime.

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Criminal conspiracy

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future.

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Dennis Bovell

Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953Huey, Steve,, Allmusic. Retrieved 27 December 2014.) is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in England.

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Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Emulsion

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. John Myatt and Graham Sutherland are 20th-century English male artists.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Ian Brown

Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English musician.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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Janet Kay

Janet Kay Bogle (born 17 January 1958) is an English actress and vocalist, best known for her 1979 lovers rock hit "Silly Games".

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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor of the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris).

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John Drewe

John Drewe (born 1948) is a British purveyor of art forgeries who commissioned artist John Myatt to paint them. John Myatt and John Drewe are English art forgers.

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K-Y Jelly

K-Y Jelly (Rebranded as Knect in the United Kingdom) is a water-based, water-soluble personal lubricant, most commonly used as a lubricant for sexual intercourse and masturbation.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.

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Nicolas de Staël

Nicolas de Staël (January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.

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Portrait

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.

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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Provenance

Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.

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Reigate

Reigate is a town in Surrey, England, around south of central London.

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Roger Bissière

Roger Bissière (22 September 1886 – 2 December 1964) was a French artist.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs.

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Silly Games

"Silly Games" is a song written by Dennis Bovell that was first released in 1979 as a single by Janet Kay.

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Sky Arts

Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is a British free-to-air television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, films, documentaries and music (such as opera performances and classical and jazz sessions).

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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See also

English art forgers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Myatt

Also known as Genuine fakes, Myatt, John.