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A Good Joke : The Life And Crimes Of Notorious New Zealand Art Forger Karl Sim
Paperback Edition: 1
The Mangaweka-born man, who lived in Himatangi and then Foxton for most of his life, came to notoriety in the mid-1980s when, known as Karl Sim, he was brought to court for forging the works of C F Goldie and Petrus van der Velden.
A book on some of Sim's forgeries up until his 1986 conviction was published in 2002. This new book tells the full story of his pre-conviction forgeries, and of his extensive forgery activities from 1986 until shortly before his death in 2013, which no-one outside of a few close associates knew about until now.
Ian Dougherty is a Dunedin-based journalist and historian. He is the author of 27 non-fiction books on New Zealand biography, history, culture and society.
Featured in the 10 July 2019 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 228
Publisher : Saddle Hill Press
Publication date : 2019-07-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film