I Was Vermeer

I Was Vermeer The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

Frank Wynne2006
A fascinating portrait of the career of master forger Han van Meegeren describes how this troubled, second-rate painter became a secret star of the art world, thanks to his superlative Vermeer forgeries, whose victims included Hermann Gring, after trading the Nazi leader one of his forgeries for hundreds of looted Dutch paintings.
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