True Copy - Berlin & NTGent

‘The only one who never gets recognition is the forger. Unless he is unmasked.’ - Geert Jan Jansen Op May 6, 1994, gendarmes raid the French estate of Geert Jan Jansen. There, they find more than 1600 works by great masters such as Picasso, Dalí, Appel, Matisse, and Hockney. Remarkable detail? The majority turns out to be painted by one Dutchman. For more than twenty years, Geert Jan Jansen manages to mislead the art world. So convincingly, in fact, that Picasso and Appel write certificates of authenticity without suspicion for work that he made himself. By and with: Geert Jan Jansen & Fien Leysen