Tom Keating
An exclusive study of a master faker.
In 1976 the art world was rocked by sensational stories in The Times. Antique pictures sold by reputable London dealers as the work of the Victorian artist Samuel Palmer were apparently nothing of the kind. The paintings were not Palmers, they were Tom Keatings. Now, for the first time, Tom Keat ing talks about the events that led him to fake the Old Masters, the vendetta he has nursed against the art Establishment, his love for, and collaboration with, a girl 30 years his junior. TOM KEATING shows how he faked his Palmers, his Renoirs, Degas, and other Old Masters. He also shows how one of his pastiches can be transformed into a commercial fake.
Film cameraman COLIN WALDECK Film editor PETER GORDON Producer ROGER MILLS
Director REX BLOOMSTEIN