Credited to Lela Hersh, ASA, Accredited Fine Art appraiser and Consultant, Chicago, IL.

Lela compiled artists’ names whose works were known to have been forged by nine (9) well-known art forgers.

Han van Meegeren

  • DUTCH
    • Dirck van Baburen (DUTCH, 1590-1624)
    • Frans Hals (DUTCH, 1580-1666)
    • Pieter de Hooch (DUTCH, 1629-1684)
    • Rembrandt van Rijn (DUTCH, 1606-1669)
    • Johannes (van Delft) Vermeer (DUTCH, 1632-1675)

Elmyr de Hory

  • FRENCH
    • Pierre Bonnard (FRENCH, 1867-1947)
    • Georges Braque (FRENCH, 1882-1963)
    • Paul Cézanne (FRENCH, 1839-1906)
    • Marc Chagall (FRENCH/RUSSIAN, 1887-1985)
    • Edgar Degas (FRENCH, 1834-1917)
    • André Derain (FRENCH, 1880-1954)
    • Raoul Dufy (FRENCH, 1877-1953)
    • Paul Gauguin (FRENCH, 1848-1903)
    • Vincent van Gogh (DUTCH, 1853-1890)
    • Marie Laurencin (FRENCH, 1885-1956)
    • Fernand Léger (FRENCH, 1881-1955)
    • Albert Marquet (FRENCH, 1875-1947)
    • Henri Matisse (FRENCH, 1869-1954)
    • Claude Monet (FRENCH, 1840-1926)
    • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (FRENCH, 1864-1901)
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir (FRENCH, 1841-1919)
    • Maurice de Vlaminck FRENCH, 1876-1958)
  • ITALIAN
    • Amedeo Modigliani (ITALIAN, 1884-1920)
  • OTHER
    • Pablo Picasso (SPANISH, 1881-1973)
    • Kees von Dongen (DUTCH, 1877-1968)
  • DEALERS
    • Earl Stendahl
    • Klaus Perls
    • Jacques Chamberlin
  • PARTNER
    • Fernand Legros
  • PSEUDONYMS
    • L.E. Raynal
    • Elmyr Hoffman
    • Louis Cassou
    • Elmyr von Houry
    • Baron Herzog

Eric Hebborn

  • ITALIAN
    • Francesco del Cossa (ITALIAN, 1435-1477)
    • Andrea Mantegna (ITALIAN, 1431-1506)
    • Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi (ITALIAN, 1520-1582)
    • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (ITALIAN, 1696-1770)
    • Giovanni Battista Piranesi (ITALIAN, 1720-1778)
    • Giovanni Boldini (ITALIAN, 1842-1931)
    • Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (ITALIAN, 1494-1556/7)
    • Parmigianino (ITALIAN, 1503-1540)
    • Jacopo Bellini (ITALIAN, 1400-1470)
    • Aniello Falcone (ITALIAN, 1607-1656)
  • FRENCH
    • Nicolas Poussin (FRENCH, 1594-1665)
    • François Boucher (FRENCH, 1703-1770)
    • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
    • Jean Antoine Watteau (FRENCH, 1684-1721)
  • DUTCH AND FLEMISH
    • Jan van Huysum (DUTCH, 1682-1749)
    • Sir Peter Paul Rubens (FLEMISH, 1577-1640)
    • Sir Anthony van Dyck (FLEMISH, 1599-1641)
    • Jan Brueghel the Younger (FLEMISH, 1601-1678)
  • BRITISH
    • Augustus Edwin John (BRITISH, 1878-1961)
    • Thomas Gainsborough (BRITISH, 1727-1788)
    • David Hockney (BRITISH, 1937)
  • OWNED
    • Pannini Galleries, London

Wolfgang Beltracchi

  • GERMAN
    • Heinrich Campendonk (GERMAN, 1889-1957)
    • Max Ernst (GERMAN, 1891-1976)
    • August Macke (GERMAN, 1887-1914)
    • Carlo Mense (GERMAN, 1886-1965)
    • Oskar Moll (GERMAN, 1875-1947)
    • Heinrich Nauen (GERMAN, 1880-1941)
    • Max Pechstein (GERMAN, 1881-1955)
    • Hans Purrmann (GERMAN, 1880-1966)
    • Johannes Molzahn (GERMAN, 1892-1965)
  • FRENCH
    • Georges Braque (FRENCH, 1882-1963)
    • André Derain (FRENCH, 1880-1954)
    • Raoul Dufy (FRENCH, 1877-1953)
    • Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (FRENCH, 1879-1949)
    • Albert Gleizes (FRENCH, 1881-1953)
    • Henri Hayden (FRENCH, 1883-1970)
    • Auguste Herbin (FRENCH, 1882-1960)
    • Moïse Kisling (FRENCH/POLISH, 1891-1953)
    • André Lhote (FRENCH, 1885-1962)
    • Gustave Loiseau (FRENCH, 1865-1935)
    • Fernand Léger (FRENCH, 1881-1955)
    • Louis Marcoussis (FRENCH, 1883-1941)
  • OTHER
    • Theodore Earl Butler (AMERICAN, 1861-1936)
    • Kees van Dongen (DUTCH, 1877-1968)
    • Emil Filla (CZECH, 1882-1953)
    • Pablo Picasso (SPANISH, 1881-1973)
  • PROVENANCE
    • Werner Jägers, Cologne

Greenhalgh Family

  • GERMAN
    • Otto Dix (GERMAN, 1891-1969)
  • BRITISH AND SCOTTISH
    • Laurence Stephen Lowry (BRITISH, 1887-1976)
    • Barbara Hepworth (BRITISH, 1903-1975)
    • Samuel John Peploe (SCOTTISH, 1871-1935)
    • Henry Moore (BRITISH, 1898-1986)
  • AMERICAN
    • Thomas Moran (AMERICAN, 1837-1926)
    • Man Ray (AMERICAN, 1890-1976)
    • Horatio Greenough (AMERICAN, 1805-1852)
  • ROMANIAN
    • Constantin Brancusi (ROMANIAN, 1876-1957)
  • FRENCH
    • Paul Gauguin (FRENCH, 1848-1903)
  • ANTIQUITIES
    • Amarna Princess, 1350 BC
    • Silverstone Park Catalogue
    • Assyrian Stone Frieze
    • Eadred Reliquary silver vessel – 10th-Century
    • Roman Statures
    • Anglo Saxon ring
  • FORGED A FORGER
    • Thomas Chatteron

Mark Landis

  • AMERICAN
    • Walter Inglis Anderson (AMERICAN, 1903-1965)
    • Milton Avery (AMERICAN, 1885-1965)
    • Mary Cassatt (AMERICAN, 1844-1926)
    • William Merritt Chase (AMERICAN, 1849-1916)
    • Charles Courtney Curran (AMERICAN, 1861-1942
    • Maynard Dixon (AMERICAN, 1875-1946)
    • Edith Head (AMERICAN, 1907-1981)
    • Alfred Jacob Miller (AMERICAN, 1810-1874)
    • Everett Shinn (AMERICAN, 1876-1953)
    • Lionel Walden (AMERICAN, 1861-1933)
    • Stanton MacDonald-Wright (AMERICAN, 1890-1973)
  • FRENCH
    • Honoré Daumier (FRENCH, 1808-1879)
    • Marie Laurencin (FRENCH, 1885-1956)
    • Stanislas Lépine (FRENCH, 1835-1892)
    • Henri Matisse (FRENCH, 1869-1954)
    • Paul Signac (FRENCH, 1863-1935)
    • Louis Valtat (FRENCH, 1869-1952)
    • Jean Antoine Watteau (FRENCH, 1684-1721)
  • OTHER
    • Hans von Aachen (GERMAN, 1552-1615)
    • René Magritte (BELGIAN, 1898-1967)
    • José Clemente Orozco (MEXICAN, 1883-1949)
    • Pablo Picasso (SPANISH, 1881-1973)
    • Paolo Camillo Landriani (ITALIAN, b,ca. 1560-d. ca .1618)
    • Egon Schiele (AUSTRIAN, 1890-1918)
  • LANDIS ALIAS (14 KNOWN)
    • Stephen Gardiner (surname name of a collector)
    • Father Arthur Scott, a Jesuit priest
    • Father James Brantley (stepfather)
    • Marc Lanois
    • John Grauman
    • Martin Lynley

Ken Perenyi

  • AMERICAN
    • Alfred Thompson Bricher (AMERICAN, 1837-1908)
    • Martin Johnson Heade (AMERICAN, 1819-1904)
    • Gilbert Stuart (AMERICAN, 1755-1828)
    • Charles Bird King (AMERICAN, 1785-1862)
    • Robert Swain Gifford (AMERICAN, 1840-1905)
    • William Aiken Walker (AMERICAN, 1838-1921
  • BRITISH
    • Charles Brooking (BRITISH, 1723-1759)
    • Thomas Buttersworth (BRITISH, 1768-1842)
    • James Edward Buttersworth (AMERICAN/BRITISH, 1817-1894)
    • John E. Ferneley (BRITISH, 1782-1860)
    • Thomas Gainsborough (BRITISH, 1727-1788)
    • John Frederick Herring the Elder (BRITISH, 1795-1865)
    • Sir Peter Lely (BRITISH, 1618-1680)
    • James Seymour (BRITISH, 1702-1752)
    • John Wootton (BRITISH, 1686-1765)
  • DUTCH AND FLEMISH
    • Rembrandt van Rijn (DUTCH, 1606-1669)
    • Kees van Dongen (DUTCH, 1877-1968)
    • 16th Century Flemish portraits
  • FRENCH
    • Paul Cézanne (FRENCH, 1839-1906)
    • Jacques-Louis David (FRENCH, 1748-1825)
    • Alfred de Dreux (FRENCH, 1810-1860)
    • Fernand Léger (FRENCH, 1881-1955)
    • Claude Monet (FRENCH, 1840-1926)
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir (FRENCH, 1841-1919)
    • Alfred Sisley (FRENCH, 1839-1899)
    • Maurice Utrillo (FRENCH, 1883-1955)
    • Claude Joseph Vernet (FRENCH, 1714-1789)
  • ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (ITALIAN, B. CA. 1485-1576)
    • Francesco Guardi (ITALIAN, 1712-1793)
    • Amedeo Modigliani (ITALIAN, 1884-1920)
    • Giovanni Paolo Pannini (ITALIAN, 1691-1765)
  • SPANISH
    • Joan Miró (SPANISH, 1893-1983)
    • Pablo Picasso (SPANISH, 1881-1973)

Pei-Shen Qian (Glafira Rosales and Jose Carlos/ Jesus Angel Bergantiños Diaz)

  • AMERICAN
    • Jean-Michel Basquiat (AMERICAN, 1960-1988)
    • Richard Diebenkorn (AMERICAN, 1922-1993)
    • Sam Francis (AMERICAN, 1923-1994)
    • Keith Haring (AMERICAN, 1958-1990)
    • Franz Kline (AMERICAN, 1910-1962)
    • Willem de Kooning (AMERICAN/DUTCH, 1904-1997)
    • Robert Motherwell (AMERICAN, 1915-1991)
    • Barnett Newman (AMERICAN, 1905-1970)
    • Jackson Pollock (AMERICAN, 1912-1956)
    • Mark Rothko (AMERICAN, 1903-1970)
  • MEXICAN
    • Francisco Zúñiga (MEXICAN, 1912-1998)
  • GALLERIES AND DEALERS
    • Kings Fine Art (owned by Jose Carlos and operated also by Glafira Rosales)
    • Glafira Rosales Fine Art, LLC
    • Knoedler & Co. (Anne Freedman)
    • Julian Weissman Fine Art, LLC

John Myatt (John Drewe)

  • FRENCH
    • Roger Bissière (FRENCH, 1886-1964)
    • Georges Braque (FRENCH, 1882-1963)
    • Le Corbusier (FRENCH/SWISS, 1887-1965)
    • Jean Dubuffet (FRENCH, 1901-1985)
    • Raoul Dufy (FRENCH, 1877-1953)
    • Albert Gleizes (FRENCH, 1881-1953)
    • Fernand Léger (FRENCH, 1881-1955)
    • Henri Matisse (FRENCH, 1869-1954)
    • Claude Monet (FRENCH, 1840-1926)
    • Nicolas de Staël (FRENCH, 1914-1955)
  • OTHER
    • Amedeo Modigliani (ITALIAN, 1884-1920)
    • Arthur Segal (ROMANIAN, 1857-1944)
  • SPANISH
    • Joan Miró (SPANISH, 1893-1983)
    • Pablo Picasso (SPANISH, 1881-1973)
  • SWISS
    • Alberto Giacometti (SWISS, 1901-1966)
    • Paul Klee (SWISS, 1879-1940)
  • AMERICAN
    • James Abbott McNeill Whistler (AMERICAN, 1834-1903)
    • Jasper Johns (AMERICAN, 1930)
  • BRITISH
    • Mark Gertler (BRITISH, 1892-1939)
    • Laurence Stephen Lowry (BRITISH, 1887-1976)
    • Ben Nicholson (BRITISH, 1894-1982)
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (BRITISH, 1828-1882)
    • Graham Sutherland (BRITISH, 1903-1980)
  • GERMAN
    • Willi Baumeister (GERMAN, 1889-1955)
    • Max Liebermann (GERMAN, 1847-1935)
  • DUTCH
    • Vincent van Gogh (DUTCH, 1853-1890)
    • Anton Mauve (DUTCH, 1838-1888)
  • DREWE ALIAS
    • John R. Cockett
    • John R. Barrington-Drewe
    • Peter Harris (friend – used name)
  • FAKE PROVENANCE
    • Obelisk Gallery
    • O’Hana Gallery
    • Hanover Gallery
    • John Catch (not real)
    • Order of the Servants of Mary
    • Peter Watson Collection (former director of ICA)

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