Genuine Fakes Exhibition

With an appearance from the famous Genuine Fakes artist on the 20th October from 12pm to 2pm, the event at our ICC gallery will celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated new collection of originals and limited editions. The exhibition will be in the gallery from the 20th of October until the 23rd of November. 

John Myatt’s paintings are a unique way to understand the spirit and methods of history’s greatest artists. Although Myatt now emulates the masters while adding his own panache, that luxury wasn’t always afforded to him. To support his family as a single father, Genuine Fakes began on the wrong side of the law, when Scotland Yard detectives called his immaculate imitations of work by art world heavyweights like Marc Chagall, Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century”.

In combining this heightened awareness for his craft with a genuine and enduring love for bringing old masterpieces to a new and wider audience, Myatt’s journey has been a veritable masterclass, more than fifteen years in the making. From Monet to Matisse and Van Gogh to Vermeer, Myatt’s past portfolio of ‘genuine fakes’ traverses most styles and subjects of any note from the annals of art history.