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A pro mastered art of the con.(Spotlight)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | June 27, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Dan Danbom, Special to the Rocky

* Nonfiction. By Edward Dolnick. HarperCollins, $26.95. Grade: A

Book in a nutshell: The Forger's Spell is the engrossing and jaw-dropping story of how an average artist but superior con man named Han van Meegeren fooled egotistical art experts, museums, and rapacious art collector (and No. 2 Nazi) Hermann Goering into believing that eight previously unknown works from masters of Dutch painting just happened to be found four centuries after they were painted.

How van Meegeren was able to carry off these serial…

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Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) ...average artist but superior con man named Han van Meegeren fooled egotistical art experts, museums, and...faking 400-year-old art was something to behold...Meegeren is the only "con" here . Final word: This...make your next trip to the art museum a skeptical one...

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