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Episode 11: Forgery

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The Art Forger's Handbook - The Forgers Handbook

Heburn was a chemist who did analyses of the pigments used by different artists. He volunteered all his secrets because he was looking for notoriety. One of his tricks was to get drunk while he was making the drawings, and it would achieve a certain fluidity of line and body. And future forgers literally reproduced the recipes that he put into play in his book.

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