The Art Forger
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"[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices." -- Parade "[A] nimble mystery." --The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." --O, The Oprah Magazine Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--still the largest unsolved art theft in history--one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece--the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years--may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing--and not seeing--the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1616201320
ISBN13:9781616201326
Release Date:October 2012
Publisher:Algonquin Books
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.17 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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The art of forging
Published by CSalmon , 1 year ago
This book has received many mixed reviews. I am a novice painter and I really enjoyed hearing about the forging techniques and the history of forging great works of art. I also enjoyed the historical interactions between Isabelle and Degas. I could have done without Claire's romantic intanglements but enjoyed hearing about her creative processes. The mystery was a good addition and added tension.
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