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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
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Rilegatura
- (Copertina rigida)
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- Titolo
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Dominic Smith
- Editore
- Atlantic Books
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1925266184
- ISBN13
- 9781925266184
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Arte / Cultura, Tema stórico, Gialli & Thriller, Prosa storica, Gialli, Arte, Amore, Narrativa contemporanea, USA, Storie, Storia e teoria dell’arte, Storia dell'arte, New York, Vendetta, Australia, Paesi Bassi, Seicento, Amsterdam, Sydney
- Descrizione
- 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.