The Tom Keating Affair. The true story of a forgery artist

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Tom Keating is a character completely out of our time, although he lived in the neighboring XNUMXth century. A renaissance-type person, a nugget, sincere and honest (“crooks” are also Robin Hoods), childishly direct in relation to life and art, true to his principles and ideals.
An outstanding master of forgery and restoration, but, above all, a talented artist, he said: “I have never made a secret of my ability to create fakes. And only one thing amazes me - that the press could not expose me for so long. Keating was exposed by the art journalist of The Times, now head of the English Society of Friends of the Hermitage, the author of several books about the museum and the Piotrovsky dynasty, Geraldine Norman. In the second part of the book, she talks about her incredible journalistic-detective investigation and the search for its hero. As a result of Norman's articles and the hype in the art community, Tom Keating showed up and called his indefatigable stalker. Keating, extremely flamboyant, grey-haired and full-bearded, more like Luciano Pavarotti than English Cockney, told his story to Geraldine and her husband, writer Frank Norman. In the first part of the book, Frank narrates it from Tom's point of view. He talks about the urgent restoration of frames in the Soviet embassy for the visit of Bulganin and Khrushchev to London, about the "tour" of Scottish castles with ghosts to restore collections of paintings, about a brief meeting with the Queen and how they stood together on the scaffolding at Marlborough House and Keating demonstrated how to clear one painting and reveal another behind it, and many more, completely non-fictional stories? ... 

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Publication language: Russian

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