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The optimistic sound of the Jazz Age was everywhere, women were given the right to vote and there was now radio and film. Exactly hundred years ago th
From the NS archive: The Van Meegeren affair 1 April 1950: The too-good-to-be-true “new” Vermeers. By John Richardson On 1 April 1950 – a propitious date for a book about fakery – the distinguished art historian John Richardson (later famous for his work on Picasso) reviewed Dr P Coremans' "Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers and De Hooghs", a new study of the celebrated Dutch art forger Han Van Meegeren. It was only five years since the revelation that a number of “new” paintings by Vermeer were in fact the forgeries of an embittered and mediocre artist. Van Meegeren claimed they...