| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. A liar's biography -- The collaborator -- Beautiful nonsense -- The sphinx of Delft -- Smoke and mirrors -- A happy hunting ground -- The master forger and the Fascist dream -- Sieg Heil! -- Goering gets a Vermeer -- The endgame-- Swept under the rug -- Epilogue. Framing the fake. |
| Summary |
Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook who plied the forger's trade far longer than he ever admitted--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez also explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe. |
| Subject |
Meegeren, Han van, 1889-1947.
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Art forgers -- Netherlands -- Biography.
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Painters -- Netherlands -- Biography.
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Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Forgeries.
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| ISBN |
9780151013418 |
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0151013411 |
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