His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned 50 million dollars, the acclamation of the world's press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis.
"Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art worldand along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some colour) 22 cm.
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