The Forger's Spell

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A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Written by Edward Dolnick As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger’s Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years...

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A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Written by Edward Dolnick

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger’s Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired artists who ever lived. As Edward Dolnick reveals, his true genius lay in psychological manipulation, and he came within inches of fooling the world. Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life. The Forger’s Spell is the gripping, true tale of this almost perfect crime.

Endorsement

“Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud itself . . . an incomparable page turner.” —Boston Globe

Paperback, 384 pages, illustrated, notes, bibliography, index, appendix: author's personal notes (a Dutch Heritage subject and WWII history)