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I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis (Paperback)
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Short Description for I Was VermeerPresents an account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art, which tells 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.
Full description- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published: 20 August 2007
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Forgery | Art Finance | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Biography: General
- ISBN 13: 9780747566816 ISBN 10: 074756681X
- Sales rank: 127,993
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Full description for I Was Vermeer
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.
