Bibliograph

The man who made Vermeers, unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren, Jonathan Lopez

Type

Label

The man who made Vermeers, unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren, Jonathan Lopez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man who made Vermeers

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Lopez

Sub title

unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren

Summary

Now a major motion picture starring Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer* is a revelatory biography of the world's most famous forger-a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush-and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world. It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives for this long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren's legend. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. {u200B}*Formerly titled The Man Who Made Vermeers

Target audience

adult

Classification