Ted wrote:
> THE FORGER'S SPELL by Edward Dolnick
>
> A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax
> of the Twentieth Century
>
> Washington Post book review: http://atu.ca/4671
Reading the review reminded me of other great hoaxes: The discovery of
Beethoven's 10th Symphony, which, after being hailed by Toscanini, among
others, as Beethoven’s greatest work and played by major orchestras
around the world, was exposed as the work of a gin mill pianist named
Haldor Siggurdsvisson, aka Smoothie Silks. And who can forget the twelve
hundred page Tolstoy “lost novel” Tremor and Tranquility, which Edmund
Wilson acclaimed the greatest work in Russian literature, later found to
been written by the William Morris Agency mail clerk, Russian émigré
Viktor Platknick?
Then there was Miss Wilson’s kindergarten class and their Jackson
Pollock forgeries. The school board was in the know but since the bond
issue didn’t pass and the school district needed the money…
--PS
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