The Art Forger

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/21/2013
ISBN: 9781616203160
Pages: 369
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 06/23/2013 pg. 28