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The Euphronios Krater Returned to Italy
In 1972 the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a record $1 million for a dazzling sixth-century BC Greek vase painted by Euphronios. Decades later it was proven to have been looted from an Etruscan tomb near Cerveteri — and in 2008 the Met returned it to Italy.
John Myatt
A British painter whose 'genuine fakes' fueled what Scotland Yard called the biggest art fraud of the twentieth century, in partnership with con man John Drewe, who corrupted archives to fabricate provenance. Myatt now sells legitimate 'genuine fakes' openly.
John Drewe
British con man behind one of the most damaging art frauds in history. Rather than forge paintings himself, he forged their provenance — infiltrating archives at the Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum to insert fake documents that authenticated works painted by John Myatt. He was convicted in 1999; many of the falsified records remain undetected.