The Rogue's gallery: during the 1930s and '40s, John Decker was a Hollywood artist whose brilliance went hand in hand with his boozing antics. But did he have a secret career as a forger of Rembrandt and other old masters?

In 1947, a small West Hollywood art gallery held a memorial exhibit in honor of its recently deceased owner, the painter and notorious Hollywood fixture John Decker. In a brief [...]