Fascinated By Art Crime, Riah Pryor Has Made It Her Business To Find Out As Much As She Can About The Shady World Of Selling And Buying Forged Artworks.
How did you become interested in the world of art crime?
I became intrigued by the subject and the work involved in establishing whether a painting was authentic when studying History of Art at UCL. This interest led to a job at the Art & Antiques Unit at New Scotland Yard, where my research on cases and organisation of events to raise awareness of the issue helped me get to grips with how the art market worked and how criminals work within it.
Which art heist of our lifetime has affected you the most?
As an art-lover, I’m always pretty upset when a work goes missing. I think the most shocking art heist in recent times has to be the theft carried out at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Thirteen works of art, including pieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer, are still missing. It’s a massive loss.
You talk about low-level crime on a mass scale in your book, Crime and the Art Market – what does this mean?
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Still life IN 3 HOURS
Former BP Portrait Award runner-up FELICIA FORTE guides you through a simple, structured approach to painting alla prima that tackles dark, average and light colours in turn
Movement in composition
Through an analysis of three masterworks, landscape painter and noted author MITCHELL ALBALA shows how you can animate landscape composition with movement
Shane Berkery
The Irish-Japanese artist talks to REBECCA BRADBURY about the innovative concepts and original colour combinations he brings to his figurative oil paintings from his Dublin garden studio
The Working Artist
Something old, something new... Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL has expert advice for balancing fresh ideas with completing half-finished work
Washes AND GLAZES
Art Academy’s ROB PEPPER introduces an in-depth guide to incorporating various techniques into your next masterpiece. Artwork by STAN MILLER, CHRIS ROBINSON and MICHELE ILLING
Hands
LAURA SMITH continues her new four-part series, which encourages you to draw elements of old master paintings, and this month’s focus is on capturing hands
Vincent van Gogh
To celebrate The Courtauld’s forthcoming landmark display of the troubled Dutch master’s self-portraits, STEVE PILL looks at the stories behind 10 of the most dramatic works on display
BRING THE drama
Join international watercolour maestro ALVARO CASTAGNET in London’s West End to paint a dramatic street scene
Serena Rowe
The Scottish painter tells STEVE PILL why time is precious, why emotional responses to colour are useful, and how she finds focus every day with the help of her studio wall
Bill Jacklin
Chatting over Zoom as he recovers from appendicitis, the Royal Academician tells STEVE PILL about classic scrapes in New York and his recent experiments with illustration
