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is true in many fields besides art. The journalist Malcolm Gladwell cites mammograms as a notable example. We employ state-of-the-art X-ray technology in the hope of certainty only to find that the hunt for breast tumors demands one educated guess after another. See Malcolm Gladwell, “The Picture Problem,” The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 2004.

On the basis of stylistic…Anthony Bailey, Responses to Rembrandt, p. 40.

Unless you find something…Hoving interview. All the quotations from Hoving in the rest of this chapter are from this interview.

Anthony Bailey tells the story…Bailey, Responses to Rembrandt, p. 39.

CHAPTER SIX: FORGERY 101

Christopher Wright, a distinguished…Author interview, Nov. 8, 2005.

“Let the paper choose”…Eric Hebborn, The Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 39.

Tom Keating, a sloppy…Frank Geraldine and Norman Norman, The Fake’s Progress, p. 241.

Elmyr de Hory…Clifford Irving, Fake! p. 72.

He claimed he once…Ibid., p. 62.

Thomas Hoving says…Hoving made his comment in a review of Hebborn’s Art Forger’s Handbook. See “Sleight of a Master’s Hand,” The Times [of London], Jan. 23, 1997.

Could it really be true…Eric Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble, p. 73.

He had sold upward…Hebborn refers to “500 pictures” on p. 364 of Drawn to Trouble, and to the Met and the National Gallery on p. 362 of the same book.

“frightening talent”…Hoving, “Sleight.”

Hebborn’s solution…Hebborn, Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 15.

“When the ink was dry”…Norman and Norman, p. 84.

“He also copied drawings”…Quoted in Hebborn, Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 49. The passage is near the beginning of Vasari’s chapter on Michelangelo.

The forger David Stein…Anne-Marie Stein, Three Picassos Before Breakfast, p. 122.

To produce a drawing…Hebborn, Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 49.

Add a few flakes…Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble, p. 295.

“It is rather like frying”…Hebborn, Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 51.

“The likelihood of catching”…Stein, p. 46.

“accessible artists”…Hebborn, Art Forger’s Handbook, p. 46.

CHAPTER SEVEN: OCCUPIED HOLLAND

“The man on the street”…Maass, p. 43.

“The Dutchman’s character”…Louis Lochner, ed., The Goebbels Diaries, p. 110.

“As everybody knows”…Ibid., p. 494.

IQ tests at Nuremberg…Leonard Mosley, The Reich Marshal, p. 399.

“as far as possible”…Maass, p. 48.

“gingerbread with whippings”…Lochner, ed., p. 485.

“If you tried to escape”…De Jong, Netherlands and Nazi Germany, p. 19.

Only two hundred Dutchmen…Maass, p. 69.

“Probably no other country”…Ibid., p. 68.

“Every tradition of conspiracy”…Ibid., p. 70.

No one had thought…Ibid., p. 71.

“They had spent their whole lives”…Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940–1945, p. 195.

Failure to produce…Maass, p. 71.

This was no mere…Presser, p. 39.

“Although undoubtedly pro-German”…Moore, p. 198.

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS

“a little prayerful”…Quoted in Moore, p. 44.

Before the war…De Jong, Netherlands and Nazi Germany, p. 20.

The comparable figure…Moore, p. 2.

“I have now been here four”…Ibid., p. 16.

“Tens of thousands”…Ibid., p. 17.

The blows directed…The dates in this paragraph come from Presser, pp. 31, 65, 68, 77, 83, 115, 120, 131. The dates in the following paragraph come from Presser, pp. 129, 130.

“countless friends and acquaintances”…Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, p. 69.

By the end of September…Presser, pp. 184–89, 214.

After two days, the SS…Maass, p. 65.

“This strike,” Louis de Jong…De Jong, Netherlands and Nazi Germany, p. 8.

“One felt sorry”…Quoted in Presser, p. 325.

CHAPTER NINE: THE FORGER’S CHALLENGE

The acclaimed Elmyr de Hory…Clifford Irving, Fake!, p. 90.

In 1931, according to…Russell, “Revenge Keeps Its Colour.”

Solving it took him almost…Hope Werness, “Han van Meegeren fecit,” p. 23. In Denis Dutton, ed., The Forger’s Art. Werness’s essay is one of the essential documents on Van Meegeren in English.

Dishonest apothecaries…Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, p. 77.

Some forgers have been…Esterow, “Fakes, Frauds.”

It takes somewhere between…Leo Stevenson,