Tony Tetro
Anthony Gene "Tony" Tetro (* 1950 in Fulton (New York) ) is an American art forger and copyist .
Tetro, the son of a master painter in New York, was active as a forger primarily in the 1970s and 1980s and, according to the Los Angeles prosecutor Ira Reiner, was the greatest forger of works of art in the United States during this period . His forgeries were found in museums, galleries and auction houses around the world. He forged both old masters and contemporary painters, in particular Salvador Dalí , Joan Miro , Marc Chagall , Norman Rockwell . He was discovered in the mid-1980s when his client sold counterfeit watercolors by Hiro Yamagata to a gallery in Beverly Hills that was in close proximity to a gallery that had the exclusive sales rights of Yamagata. When the artist was visiting there, he discovered the forgeries. In 1989 Tetro was sentenced to jail after a four and a half year trial. In 1994 he was released and from then on he earned his living only by making copies of well-known works of art, which he signed with his name.
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| SURNAME | Tetro, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tetro, Anthony Gene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art forger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fulton , New York |