 He raged against the art community together with journalist Jan Ubink between April 1928 and March 1930, and he lost any sympathy from the critics in the process.Van Meegeren felt that his genius had been misjudged, and he set out to prove to the art critics that he could more than "copy" the Dutch Masters; he would produce a work so magnificent that it would rival theirs.He moved with Jo to the South of France and began preparations for this ultimate forgery, which took him from 1932 to 1937.