Keating on Keating

United Kingdom, 1983

Film
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Episode of Series “Keating on Painters Series”.
In this episode world renowned art forger, Tom Keating, talks about his life, how he started to “fake” pictures for London dealers, his lifelong love of painting and of teaching the techniques of master painters to others.

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Credits

director

Richard Fawkes

producer

Richard Beighton

production company

Channel 4 Television Corporation

Moving Picture Company

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1983

Appears in

Keating on Painters Series

Group of items

Keating on Painters Series

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324249

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Keating, Tom

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

People → Keating, Tom

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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