The man who made Vermeers
Subtitle: unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren
By: Jonathan Lopez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780151013418
Subjects: Meegeren, Han van, -- 1889-1947; Vermeer, Johannes, -- 1632-1675 -- Forgeries; Art forgers -- Netherlands -- Biography; Painters -- Netherlands -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A liar's biography; title: Ch. 1. The collaborator; title: Ch. 2. Beautiful nonsense; title: Ch. 3. The sphinx of Delft; title: Ch. 4. Smoke and mirrors; title: Ch. 5. A happy hunting ground; title: Ch. 6. The master forger and the Fascist dream; title: Ch. 7. Sieg Heil!; title: Ch. 8. Goering gets a Vermeer; title: Ch. 9. The endgame; title: Ch. 10. Swept under the rug; title: Epilogue. Framing the fake.