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I was Vermeer : the rise and fall of the twentieth century's greatest forger / Frank Wynne.
LIBRA ND653.M58 W96 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynne, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meegeren, Han van, 1889-1947.
- Meegeren, Han van.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
- Painters--Netherlands--Biography.
- Painters.
- Art forgers.
- Netherlands.
- Art forgers--Netherlands--Biography.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675--Forgeries.
- Vermeer, Johannes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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 world--and along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Amsterdam, 7 July 1945 10
- A Portrait of the Forger as a Young Artist
- 1 The Lion Tamer 21
- 2 The Alchemy of Painting 28
- 3 The View of Delft 37
- 4 A Shadow of Divine Perfection 44
- 5 The Drinking Party 58
- 6 A Careful Choice of Enemies 70
- The Renaissance Man
- 7 The Forger's Art 83
- 8 The Price of Ultramarine 91
- 9 A Superior Picasso 96
- 10 The Plastic Virtues 105
- 11 The Hobo Who Was Christ 114
- 12 A Question of Attribution 132
- 13 A Most Stupid and Malignant Race 146
- 14 Altercation with a Museum Guard 157
- 15 Gross Habits/Net Income 167
- 16 A Confederacy of Dunces 180
- Accidental Hero
- 17 The Line of Least Reluctance 189
- 18 Glory's Small Change 200
- 19 A Dirigible Arbitrament 210
- Epilogue: London, 7 July 2004 231
- I The Dwindling Vermeers 243
- II The Two Last Suppers 247
- III The Appliance of Science 255
- IV Van Meegeren's Forgeries 257
- V Where to Find Your Nearest Vermeer 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1582345937
- OCLC:
- 68221063
- Publisher Number:
- 9781582345932
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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