I Was Vermeer The Legend of the Forger Who Swindled the Nazis
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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 free: '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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780747566816 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
Imprint: | Bloomsbury |
Pub date: | 20 Aug 2007 |
DEWEY: | 702.874092 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 276 |
Weight: | 256g |
Height: | 197mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |