Word: meegeren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackson Pollock used synthetic Duco lacquers in the late '40s and early '50s. One of the first celebrated artists to rely wholly on synthetics was Holland's Hans van Meegeren, who used them to paint equally synthetic Vermeers in the 1930s. Since new oil paint can be distinguished from old in a simple laboratory test, the forger used a heat-setting resin to avoid detection...
This question was raised and left unanswered in actuality by the postwar trial of Holland's Han van Meegeren for forging Vermeers-the case that prompted Edith Simon to write this novel. The 44-year-old wife of a University of Edinburgh don, Author Simon was born in Berlin of German parents, did not learn English until her parents moved to Britain when she was 14. Since then, she has published ten books in English, ranging from a distinguished study of the Knights Templars to The Golden Hand, a novel of 14th century England that ranks with the finest...