The art forger
Shapiro, B.A.
The art forger / B.A. Shapiro - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2013 - 355 p. ; 21 cm
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them.
English
9781616203160
Art---Forgeries----Fiction
Art forgers----Fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC SHA
The art forger / B.A. Shapiro - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2013 - 355 p. ; 21 cm
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them.
English
9781616203160
Art---Forgeries----Fiction
Art forgers----Fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC SHA
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