16 Best nonfiction books like Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

Cover of Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

By: Laney Salisbury , Aly Sujo

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

When the talented but struggling artist John Myatt put a small advert for genuine fakes in Private …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

1. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

3.92

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

The story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on… read more

Similar categories in Lynn H. Nicholas's The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King

2. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

By: Ross King

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more

Similar categories in Ross King's The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick

3. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

By: Edward Dolnick

3.77

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 thef… read more

Similar categories in Edward Dolnick's The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Caveat Emptor by Ken Perenyi

4. Caveat Emptor

By: Ken Perenyi

3.73

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern … read more

Similar categories in Ken Perenyi's Caveat Emptor book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould

5. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

By: Philip Mould

3.75

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates … read more

Similar categories in Philip Mould's The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

6. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

By: Laney Salisbury , Aly Sujo

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

When the talented but struggling artist John Myatt put a small advert for genuine fakes in Private … read more

Similar categories in Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson

7. Keys to Drawing

By: Bert Dodson

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodsonshares his complete drawin… read more

Similar categories in Bert Dodson's Keys to Drawing book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman

8. The Principles of Uncertainty

By: Maira Kalman

4.25

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Maira Kalman's The Principles of Uncertainty book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

9. The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

3.89

Format: 7 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction

10. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

By: Edward Dolnick

3.50

Format: None pages,

Tijdens de Duitse bezetting van Nederland heeft Han van Meegeren fortuin gemaakt met het vervalsen … read more

Similar categories in Edward Dolnick's The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World by Anthony M. Amore

11. The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World

By: Anthony M. Amore

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution h… read more

Similar categories in Anthony M. Amore's The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

12. The Art Forger

By: B.A. Shapiro

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Shapiro's The Art Forger book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
Cover of About Looking by John Berger

13. About Looking

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more

Similar categories in John Berger's About Looking book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction

14. Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

By: Javaka Steptoe

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Jean-Michel Bas… read more

Similar categories in Javaka Steptoe's Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

15. Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

By: John Shiffman , Robert K. Wittman

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Wall Street Journal called him "a living legend." The London Times dubbed him "the most famous … read more

Similar categories in John Shiffman's Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

16. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

By: None

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more

Similar categories in None's The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

Cover of Medea by Eilish Quin

17. Medea

By: Eilish Quin

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek… read more

Similar categories in Eilish Quin's Medea book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

Cover of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

18. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

19. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Cover of The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer

20. The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

By: Joshua Hammer

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detec… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Hammer's The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger by Tony Tetro

21. Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

By: Tony Tetro

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the ma… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tetro's Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger book and Laney Salisbury's Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime

13 best-selling history books like Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

Transform Your Habits

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

Lynn H. Nicholas

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

Edward Dolnick

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Caveat Emptor

Ken Perenyi

3.73

View all the books

20 Best fiction books like Medea by Eilish Quin

Transform Your Habits

Herc

Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Medea

Eilish Quin

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Lilith

Nikki Marmery

3.61

Transform Your Habits

House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

Claire North

4.19

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.