This forger had the audacity to make counterfeits of artists who were his own contemporaries ! Born in France in 1935 under the name 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, deceiving the great artist himself ! Aware of his stroke of genius, but also of the difficulty of ripping off art dealers in Paris, he decided to leave for the United States. It is there that David really become an exceptional forger, selling false paintings of masters at low prices.
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