The art forger
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- ISBN: 144341803X
- ISBN: 9781443418034
- Physical Description 360 pages
- Edition 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher Toronto : HarperCollins, [2012]
- Copyright ©2012
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The Art Forger
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The Art Forger
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting--a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum--in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.