‘We got a kick out of it’: art forgers reveal secrets of paintings that fooled experts

Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their capture

Their forgeries of 20th-century masters such as Max Ernst and Fernand Leger duped the art world into parting with millions of pounds - until a modern pigment gave them away.

Now, after serving lengthy prison sentences, Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene have told the story behind the hundreds of paintings that tricked even the artists' families.