The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
by
Frank Wynne
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Frank 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. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim...