Delving beneath the art of deception

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century By Edward Dolnick Harper, 349 pp., illustrated, $26.95 In the autumn of 1937 the art expert Abraham Bredius made an astonishing announcement: the existence of a hitherto-unknown painting by Johannes Vermeer. Since his rediscovery in the ...

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