Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger.
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 was death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that 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 moved him.
