The artful forger

By ODT | Posted:

New Zealand's only convicted art forger, Karl Sim, and his associates entangled art experts from around the country in their web of deception. In this extract from the new book A Good Joke: The Life and Crimes of Notorious New Zealand Art Forger Karl Sim, Dunedin author Ian Dougherty reveals that Sim's boast about "fooling the experts" extended to Christchurch and Dunedin.

https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/artful-forger

The book

A Good Joke: The life and Crimes of Notorious New Zealand Art Forger Karl Sim, by Ian Dougherty, is published by Saddle Hill Press. It is out now.