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Dedicated last week was a new chapel that was designed by a professional forger, decorated by a two-man team composed of a thief and a murderer, and built by laborers on a wage scale that ranged from $1.20 to $7.70 a month. Its 1,000-odd congregation: inmates of the District of Columbia Reformatory (for men) at Lorton...
...hero of The Forger is Rufus Griffin, a Greenwich Village painter in his late 20s who makes poor money and worse puns ("All nudes is good nudes"). He falls in love with a rich man's girl friend and, to keep her in caviar and champagne, starts forging old masters. But the caviar turns to ashes in a psychologized unhappy ending. Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy...
...FORGER (375 pp.)-Jay Williams -Afheneum...
...easily imitated earlier "metaphysical" style, began to flood the art market, the canny, cantankerous artist began to see the shape of things to come. Encouraged by friends, he painted early De Chiricos himself, even predating some of them until he was threatened with legal action. Between the phony forgers and the "genuine" forger, who to this day can turn out 20 paintings a month, confusion reigned...
Though Eyre's "drawings" deceived London for quite a spell, the museum itself was in this case above reproach. Twice it turned down the opportunity to buy Eyre's Southwark Fair. But in the end Forger Thompson won out anyway. The museum became so intrigued by his work that it bought up the whole Eyre collection as an admirable example of an artful forger...