This art forger had the audacity to make counterfeits of artists whose contemporary he was! Born in France in 1935 under the name of Henri Abel Abraham Haddad, he used many pseudonyms of which David Stein is the most famous. He began his forgeries in Paris, and even went so far as to meet Picasso in the south of France to have a drawing he wanted to sell authenticated, and deceived the artist himself! Aware of his stroke of genius, but also of the difficulty of ripping off art dealers in the capital, he decided to leave for the United States. It is there that he will really become an exceptional forger, selling at low prices false paintings of masters, of which the greedy art galleries hardly check the origin and the authenticity.
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