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In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain: a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2012
- Reliure
- (rigide)
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- Titre
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Dominic Smith
- Éditeur
- Atlantic Books
- Publié
- 2012
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1925266184
- ISBN13
- 9781925266184
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Art / Culture, Thème historique, Polars & Thrillers, Romans historiques, Polars, Art, Amour, Littérature contemporaine, États-Unis, Histoires, Histoire et théorie de l’art, Histoire de l'art, New York, Vengeance, Australie, Pays-Bas, 17e siècle, Amsterdam, Sydney
- Description
- In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain: a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.