The Art Forger

by B.A. Shapiro and Barbara A. Shapiro

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616203161
• ISBN13: 9781616203160
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The art of forging

This book has received many mixed reviews. I am a novice painter and I really enjoyed hearing about the forging techniques and the history of forging great works of art. I also enjoyed the historical interactions between Isabelle and Degas. I could have done without Claire's romantic intanglements but enjoyed hearing about her creative processes. The mystery was a good addition and added tension.