Frank Wynne

I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger (2006)

Art history is a matter of provenance; art collecting an affair of prestige. Commerce in art is the ineluctable confluence of provenance and prestige. Han van Meegeren (1889–1947), a talented painter who despised the work of modernists such as Picasso, understood that he could only succeed as an ...