The art forger : a novel /
Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951-
The art forger : a novel / - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. - 360 p. ; 22 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.
9781616201326 1616201320
2012009037
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 --Fiction.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 --Fiction.
Art--Forgeries--Fiction.
Art forgers--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
PS3569.H3385 / A78 2012
813/.54
The art forger : a novel / - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. - 360 p. ; 22 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.
9781616201326 1616201320
2012009037
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 --Fiction.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 --Fiction.
Art--Forgeries--Fiction.
Art forgers--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
PS3569.H3385 / A78 2012
813/.54