The art forger
Subtitle: a novel
By: by B.A. Shapiro
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781443418034
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Fiction; Art; Forgeries; Art forgers; Painting; Women artists
Description: 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.