I Was Vermeer

Frank Wynne''s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meegeren''s heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim of the world''s press, and the satisfaction of swindling Hermann Göring himself, trading the Nazi...