The Cunning Genius Who Fooled The Art World | Conmen Case | Real Crime

Reminds me of how to still a million with Audrey Hepburn I need a movie on this crime

John Myatt is making a fortune now from his paintings, they go for up to £35,000 each. Happy for the guy.

America chose a few artists from Paris France to bring over their paintings to America in the 20s and most Americans laughed at this strange art but before long and over time the art market generated an interest and made a lot of money. At the time there were about a thousand artists in Paris but only a handful became known. The modern art market was raking in the money for Christies and Southerbies in Manhattan and still does. Manky old sun flowers sold for £20,000,000 and Dr Gatchet went for £80, 000,00 but evidence suggests the sunflower painting was a fraud but of course the Japanese owner won't allow a check on the painting and certainly not Christies. John Myatt is an excellent artist that now sells legit copies and comes from my home town.

Such talent, but also a reminder to listen to your inside voice or your gut.
Love the Genuine Fakes. That is a great way for him to channel his talent and acknowledge the ability to stay on the right side of themlaw.

The experts were just as culpable as the 2 Johns ... they were sloppy and lazy.

Just comes to show that it's all an illusion. You gotta love the "experts" scrambling to save face, though 😂

its only rich people who got their wealth from some other scam that got scammed . . .good job, well done!

The art world depends on fraud. Art dealers and auctioneers don't care if the things they sell are fake.

Drew and Trump
Birds of a feather. Uncanny.

People should research the case of Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi, a husband-and-wife team who created a similar scam. But Wolfgang Beltracchi was a very meticulous forger who took a lot of trouble to use only material which the artists whose signatures he "borrowed". He only got caught because he had bought a batch of paint which was contaminated with pigments which were not used by the artist he was imitating.
Beltracchi spent a few years in jail, but today he can sell and sign his paintings with his own name. But there are still many Beltracchi paintings out there which have never been identified - and nobody wants to known about them...
It's very interesting that many clever forgers are kind of relieved and sort of proud to have run such a clever scam 😉

Yeah but nothing happened to them yeah you arrested them imprinter kind of money they made nothing happened to them they got away with it they mean a lot of money

It seems pretty easy to fool the experts.

The real scandal to me is the incompetence of the auction houses who get paid fortunes while not being able to spot fakes.

I agree. As Eric Hebborn, another master faker, said: " People should enjoy fakes for what they are, instead of questioning them for what they are not." To put the blame on the really talented people, who care about art, is totally wrong, if we consider what the rich, who are buying art, pushing prices up astronomically, only because they want to profit astronomically, at the same time preventing the public access to art, shutting away their acquisitions in nuclear proof bunkers - so what they are doing! And to depict art dealers as the victims is utterly ridiculous, because it's in 90% of all cases THEM who perform the criminal act of documenting fakes into originals, making them forgeries. My sympathies are with the fakers, who are often talented artists, and the whole "art business" can go to hell.

The biggest con of all is the so called "Art World " itself.

Hm...that puts the saying that is going around in personality training world a different ring
FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT ;)

Fascinating and funny 😅

Mr.Myatt could have made lets say 200 paintings multiplied by 2500,- ...fair enough he could have made 500.000,- but I think he made more because the first paintings as he told us he got sometimes more than 10.000,-...pure mathematics. Mr.Drew I think could have made only from Mr.Myatts paintings lets say every picture went away with minimum average price of GBP 25.000,- so we have 200 * 25.000,- equals GBP 5.000.000.- minus 500.000,- for Mr.Wyatt ...so he could have made 4.500.000,- within these 10 years. I think the estimates are too low.

And the next con man was Wolfgang Beltracchi...he was even better than this guy because he was a real sophisticated painter. He and his wife earned more money than Mr.Drew.

As an artist myself....I applaud this man painting trying to support his family. Yes, the art world is a smelly heap of trash these days and the elite have grabbed it as a money laundering scam for themselves. It's sad.

Good, these self indulgent, arrogant pricks deserve it. Just listen to them.
Money doesn't always = intelligence

Yup. Who knows if those art collectors have original or fake paintings...

John Drewe is a narcissist. He fits the profile of a narcissist to the "T". He is a master manipulator, profitted from it and enjoyed it while it lasted.

Well yes, many criminals are very smart. Their problem is that they put their gifts to commit crimes instead of using their abilitirs to make a decent living and contribute tu society.
Art collectors can be as greedy as this criminals. The first wants to own a unique piece and pay as much as he/she can to have it and feel proud of that and may brugg abput it to his circle of friends, the second wants the money and enjoys being able to fool the "experts" and may also bragg about it. Even both may come grpm different worls, both have spme things in common.

Mary Leisa Palmer was the only person who could see that one of these paintings was a fake. She had to go out of her way to show the other 'experts' that they had no idea of what they were on about.

So world experts have no idea what is real and what is not, when right in front of their eyes. Is that the message of this tale?

Why the loud ad at the start of the video? I thought YT Premium was ad free. I was wrong.

You are free to get rich selling implements of death and destruction in this world, you can burn the Earth for profit, you can make a mint selling your fellow humans empty promises, but don't you dare forge a painting. I mean, how are the wealthy going to pay for their grandchildren's mansions?

Sometimes the art is knowing when to quit while you're ahead

Who committed the arson that resulted in the death of that Hungarian girl at the boarding house..

The biggest scam artists on the planet are the politicians in the world's various governments.

It's there own fault for buying them lol they are clever men

Love the art gallery type's saying how the guy was just to smart. Meanwhile the painter is just like how the hell did this work? Also love the part where they were like think of the billionares. LOL

I somebody today (2023) sold Putin a fake Leopard 2 tank - would that be a crime?

John Myattes wife was obviously a vengeful nut job but certainly she didn’t question spending the money 💰 💴

Smarty pants experts easily duped. Intellectual judo drops them all the time.

honestly, drewe didnt have to put that much effort into the provenance. museums, galleries, and auction houses arent known to care about provenance - ignoring shitty provenance to gain amazing paintings and artifacts is how the art industry has worked the past 100 years, and you can see examples of the bullshit it leads to with e.g. j. paul getty museum, or more recently the knoedler (which had to close bc of their scandal). hell, one of the fake pollocks that were sold through knoedler for millions had a spelling mistake in the signature (pollok, instead of pollock). it was on the wall of the buyer for YEARS and no one noticed that it was signed Pollok. and i'm supposed to believe that any of these people would've seen through drewe's fake provenance if it had been more sloppy? lmao.

Court case cost 4 millions for 1 to 2 millions forgery...who REALLY are the scammers!!!

Messy editing not very pleasant to look at

Every con man was snitched by their own women.

This whole show seems set up to vilify Drewe and vindicate Myatt.

>>>>>>>>>>> TYPICAL BRIT HODGE PODGE BULLSHIT, PERFECT FOR THE BBC, & NOWHERE ELSE !

This just shows how much these Art experts Don't know, I wonder how many paintings people have bought thinking they are the real one just because these so called experts said they were. I bet there are a lot of fake paintings in peoples houses that are told they are the genuine ones.

Start 5 minutes is, as it's just preview, preview, preview.

99.9% of people will be on the side of Myatt and Drew against the unbearably stuffy, arrogant and greedy art connoisseurs, auction houses and so-called "experts". What are called "bullshit jobs"--pretentious and bogus, which Myatt and Drew helped to expose, even if their motives were mainly financial..

I envy these people so much. I'm not intelligent and all my life people took advantage of me, so in a way scammers are doing to few what many did and do to me