What Makes It A Fake, Kate? ( me! me! that would be me!)

Okay, before you read anything else, here is something I posted a while back. I won't bore you with the URL if you don't want.

 

 http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977097615#comments

Josef Terrison began his life as an orphan in Paris in 1898. Having no parents, no family, and no one to look after him, he quickly became a child of the streets and fell into drug addiction, alcohol abuse and a life of petty crime. Terrison went from one foster home to another and finally jail. In 1912, at the tender age of fourteen he was hired by a gang to lowered through the security grate in a bank and helped steal over one hundred dollars worth of cash. His co-conspirators left him hanging, literally, and Terrison was thrown into the adult penal system in Paris.

 

Terrison escaped, however, by again slipping through security grates and he fled to England. There he met up with Henry Cowlings, the famous art thief who immediately saw Terrison as a small asset that would become a much larger one. Cowling had Terrison hide in the Royal Art Museum and after hours replaced original art with clever forgeries. Terrison would then slip out of the gallery and they would split the profit. Terrison and Cowling lifted several paintings worth hundred of thousands of dollars and Cowling eventually began to teach young Terrison how to paint.

 

Cowling was drafted into the British Army in 1915, Terrison followed him into service and they were both killed in action that same year. Nothing remains of Colwings work and Terrison left behind just one painting, the famous “Grey Flame “.

 

The article included this painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only problem is that I made all that other stuff up. There was never anyone, that I know of, named Josef Terrison, unless you include me. That was the name I gave the cops once a long time ago.

 

The Grey Flame isn't a painting at all. It's a photogrpah of erosion of a ditcj near Fargo Georgia.

I flipped it upside down so it looked like a flame.

 

This is what it looks like normal.      See how the water flows?

 

 

 

 

 

It is amazing what passes for art these days!

 

Take Care,

Mike