Caveat Emptor Quotes

“Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel were two early Flemish artists who specialized in bizarre allegorical paintings.”
― Ken Perenyi, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

“General Thomas S. Jesup was dispatched with orders to call a truce and discuss a treaty. In 1837, Osceola, under a flag of truce, met with General Jesup at Fort Moultrie in South Carolina. But in one of the most disgraceful acts of treachery in US history, instead of sitting down to peace talks with the Seminole leader, Jesup had Osceola arrested and thrown into prison.”
― Ken Perenyi, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

“In 1835, the US government decided that the Seminole Indians living in Florida were an inconvenience. The fact that the Seminoles had been there first and that it was their land meant nothing to the government, which demanded that they remove themselves to a designated territory west of the Mississippi. The problem was exacerbated by the Seminoles’ habit of taking in runaway slaves. By the mid-1830s, many of the slaves had integrated into the tribe, taking wives and raising families.”
― Ken Perenyi, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

“Around the Upper East Side, it’s not unusual to see cover-girl models on the street, but every so often you see one so stunning that you feel like passing out as she walks by.”
― Ken Perenyi, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

“I was attracted by the river and harbor scenes of seventeenth-century Dutch painters such as Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael.”
― Ken Perenyi, Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger