title: The Art of the Faker
text: # The Art of the Faker
  
  The Art of the Faker is an influential 1959 book on art forgery by Frank Arnau.
  
  ## Editions and translations
  
  * 1959 Kunst der Fälscher - Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit Antiquitäten. (Original German edition)
  * 1960 L'Art des faussaires et les faussaires de l'art (French translation by Édith Vincent)
  * 1960 Arte della falsificazione, falsificazione dell'arte (Italian translation by Piero Bernardini, published in Milan)
  * 1961 The art of the faker: three thousand years of deception in art and antiques (English translation by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, published in London)
  * 1961 El Arte De Falsificar El Arte : Tres Mil Años De Fraudes En El Comercio De Antigüedades (Spanish translation by Juan Godó Costa, published in Barcelona)
  