Peter paul biro biography
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Mr Fingerprint loses defamation case
December 16 2015
Picture: New Yorker Magazine
In July 2010, David Grann published an important investigative article in the New Yorker magazine highlighting the work of Peter Paul Biro (above), a restorer and art investigator who claimed to be able to authenticate pictures by finding fingerprints on them and matching them with the artist in question.
The article claimed, essentially, that Biro was making things up, and found that he had an awkward history involving court cases and suspect paintings. In the most damaging passage, the New Yorker deduced that in one case - an alleged Jackson Pollock - Biro had taken real fingerprints from Pollock's studio, and then applied copies of them onto the painting in question.
Very quickly, Biro's reputation collapsed.
Biro sued the magazine, and others, but this week finally lost his case. It's a shame it dragged on for so long.
Before the New Yorker article, Biro was involved in a lot of impor