Reviews
for Frank Wynne's "I Was Vermeer"
The Observer , Sunday
July 30 2006 http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,1833137,00.html
Portrait
of the artist as a copycat
I
Was Vermeer, Frank Wynne's biography of Han van Meegeren, the most
famous forger in history, is both gripping and psychologically
fascinating, says Edward Marriott
The Telegraph ,
Saturday 5 August 2006 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/05/bavermeer.xml
The
forger who fooled the world
Frank
Wynne tells the extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch
artist whose ‘Vermeer' made him a folk hero...
The Express , Sunday
30 August 2006, http://www.expressbookshop.com/index.html?target=p_4692.html&lang=en-gb
In
a century that has alternately venerated and ridiculed the notion of
the original, what better revenge for the mediocre artist than to turn
to forgery?
Kirkus
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In
a century that has alternately venerated and ridiculed the notion of
the original, what better revenge for the mediocre artist than to turn
to forgery?
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