The Man Who Made Vermeers - Couverture souple

Lopez, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547247842 ISBN 13 : 9780547247847

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

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 to write a revelatory new biography of the world’s most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook—a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. 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.

The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren’s legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.

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À propos de l?auteur

JONATHAN LOPEZ's writings on art and history appear frequently in Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques, published in London. The Man Who Made Vermeers grew out of an article that originally appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer. Lopez lives with his wife, an art historian and critic, in Manhattan

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0547247842
• ISBN 13: 9780547247847
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible