num_pages: 288
description: In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him 'I am a forger.' This riveting account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art is the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time, who executed a swindle which earned him the equivalent of fifty million dollars and the acclaim of the very critics who had mocked him.
language: English
title: I Was Vermeer
titlecomplete: I Was Vermeer
genres: Autobiography, Historical, History, Mystery, Biography, Art History, Nonfiction, Crime, True Crime, Art
ratings_count: 1479
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC