The Art Forger
Ratings23
Average rating3.8
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Ratings23
Average rating3.8
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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I really enjoyed this book. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of artistic technique.
3.5 stars
I didn't like most of the characters and couldn't keep them all straight for 70% of the book. I was just finishing it to add to my finished books list. I didn't care about what was happening to them. However the last 30% blew me away. I fell in love with Clare and cared what happened to her.
I'm thinking the author is a genius of show don't tell. It took longer than I prefer to get to really showing, but in the end, it was worth the wait.
Very entertaining book, and very timely subject with the Boston art heist in news now. It was interesting learning more about how great works of art are created.
