The art Forger

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Call Number: Fiction / Shapiro, Barbara, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Shapiro, Barbara A., Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Shapiro, B. A.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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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.

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Interesting book submitted by jaimeenmajmudar on July 10, 2014, 12:37pm It is an interesting book.

art fiction submitted by airgood on June 15, 2015, 4:20pm This is a quick and engrossing read! I love how the plot unfolds and keeps you hanging on to the end. It incorporates true elements of the Gardner heist and puts an interesting spin on it. The characters are a bit 2-D, but the plot makes up for it. Enjoyable book!

a nice art mystery book submitted by sumsaylor on July 15, 2015, 7:42pm Who doesn’t like the mystery of an unsolved heist, which to date is still the largest unsolved art heist in history? The Art Forger is many things: a mystery, an art procedural, a historical quasi-romance, inside-the-art-world dish, and the portrait of a young artist involved in things she ought not to be.

art submitted by Whitetnchina on August 30, 2016, 8:39am Interesting to consider some people forge art for a living.

c submitted by kscapellie on July 12, 2020, 6:42pm forgery art

Wow submitted by ann arbor air on June 11, 2021, 7:15pm I like this book a lot cuz of the vocabulary

Raced Through this Book submitted by emroon on August 5, 2022, 12:37pm I finished this book in one day while waiting around at jury duty. It was a really quick read and really fun. The author does a great job of twisting together real life and fiction. It was a really fun read.

this was interesting submitted by graytabby on August 7, 2022, 8:15pm I didn't think this book really stood out to me, but it was a quick read for me, probably because of the thriller aspect.

The art forger submitted by MHZ on August 19, 2023, 7:12am This is worth the read, especially if you enjoy art. The details on how forgeries are made is fascinating and it’s fun that it has an unsolved heist at its core. I agree with an earlier review that the character development was only ok.