The Forger's Spell - Edward Dolnick [153]
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: HE WHO HESITATES
“Sometimes it is a question of lovely equipoise”…Max Friedländer, “Artistic Quality: Original and Copy,” The Burlington Magazine 78, May 1941, p. 143.
“You figure it out, I know it.”…Tom Mueller, “Your Move,” The New Yorker, Dec. 12, 2005.
“He was as good at recognizing”…Blankert, personal communication, Dec. 2, 2006.
Malcolm Gladwell began his book…Gladwell’s book is eye-opening and provocative. He tells the Hoving story on pp. 3–8.
Did it take him two seconds…Sue Halpern makes this point in a fine essay reviewing Blink and a second book. See Sue Halpern, “The Moment of Truth?” New York Review of Books, April 28, 2005.
“I always swoon when I see”…Christopher Reed, “Wrong!” Harvard Magazine, Sept.–Oct., 2004.
“picking out, in seconds, the fuzzy”…Thomas Hoving, Master Pieces, pp. 6–7.
The pianist Lorin Hollander…Marie Winn, New York Times Magazine, Dec. 23, 1979.
“Provenance is a laugh”…Author interview, Nov. 16, 2005.
“That’s the trouble with an ‘eye’”…Author interview, Aug. 26, 2005.
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: THE GREAT CHANGEOVER
“sometimes so thorough”…J. C. Masterman, The Double-Cross System, p. 18.
“It appeared that the only quality”…Ibid., p. 30.
“Look at it from Bredius’s”…Author interview, Nov. 16, 2005.
“They’ll help us all the way”…Clifford Irving tells his story in The Hoax. This quote is from p. 69.
His publishers swallowed…Ibid., pp. 169–70, 209.
“It’s got to occur to them”…Ibid., p. 269.
CHAPTER FIFTY: THE SECRET IN THE SALT MINE
“In the last weeks of the war”…Osmar White, Conqueror’s Road, p. 65.
“At the height of its war effort”…Flanner, p. 266. For a history of the Monuments Men (and hundreds of photographs), see Robert M. Edsel, Rescuing da Vinci.
a peak of perhaps 80…Flanner, p. 269.
art at fifty-three different locations…White, p. 65.
a private named Mootz…This account is taken from White, p. 68, and Flanner, p. 276.
On both sides of the tracks…Greg Bradsher, “Nazi Gold: The Merkers Mine treasure,”
Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and records Administration 31, no. 1 (Spring 1999).
“With weary courtesy”…White, p. 70.
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: THE DENTIST’S TALE
The private’s job was…Lincoln Kirstein, Rhymes of a PFC. See “Arts and Monuments,” pp. 200–205.
Bunjes, one historian would later write…Flanner, p. 252.
“Information tumbled out”…Lincoln Kirstein, “The Quest of the Golden Lamb,” Town and Country, Sept. 1945.
Platoons of workmen had built…The details in this paragraph are from Nicholas, p. 314 (temperature and humidity); Howe, p. 150 (four tiers); Milton Esterow, The Art Stealers, p. 90 (Nazi orders); Hugh McLeave, Rogues in the Gallery, p. 227 (urgent pleas) (Boston: David Godine, 1981).
No help was forthcoming…Nicholas, p. 332, and Kirstein, “Arts and Monuments,” p. 204.
worked since 1310…Kirstein, “Golden Lamb.”
There they beheld…Ibid.
The altarpiece included twelve…Esterow, The Art Stealers, p. 86.
Here were painting upon painting…Howe, pp. 151–53.
“6577 paintings, 2300 drawings”…Nicholas, p. 348.
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: GOERING ON THE RUN
Goering had begun shipping…Nicholas, p. 318.
Goering sent the soldiers…Kenneth D. Alford, Great treasure Stories of World War II, p. 30.
“From one private house”…David Irving, p. 451.
The prizes of Goering’s collection…Nicholas, p. 318.
Goering shot four bison…Mosley, p. 374.
the engineers set off their dynamite…Ibid.
crazy or close to it…See, for instance, Fest, p. 60.
“I as your deputy” Mosley, p. 378.
“YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE”…Ibid., p. 381.
three trains had left…Nicholas, p. 319.
“The German army was retreating”…Alford, p. 31.
an American soldier named Jerome Shapiro…“GI Recalls the Capture of Holocaust Architect,” Los Angeles Daily News, May 4, 2005; “Jerome Shapiro, Caught Goering,” New York Times, April 10, 1968; author interview with Stephanie Mellen, Shapiro’s daughter, Jan. 25, 2007.
Operating under the delusion…Mosley, pp. 386–87.
the Americans ordered Goering…Ibid., p. 388.
deep within an air raid bunker…Nicholas, p. 320.