Jean-Pierre Raphael Schecroun (17 January 1929 – 17 July 1991) was a French painter and

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who made forgeries of work of modern masters, including

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and

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. Schecroun was born in

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on 17 January 1929. He was arrested for forgery in 1962. At the time he had made eight forgeries in two years and earned around £25,000. He claimed that his intention was to expose the credulity of the art dealers who refused to buy his own work but paid large sums for his forgeries. Schecroun died in Paris on 17 July 1991, at the age of 62.

References

External links

Schecroun in the History of Art Forgery site
1929 births 1991 deaths Art forgers 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters {{France-painter-stub