LEADER 00000pam 2200337 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20160601094615.0 008 150921s2016 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 2015033152 020 9780374106683 (hardback) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-ne--- 092 |fF|aSMITH 100 1 Smith, Dominic,|d1971-|eauthor. 245 14 The last painting of Sara De Vos /|cDominic Smith. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bSarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2016. 300 290 pages ;|c24 cm 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 520 "This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly 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 art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. 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 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 exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present" --|cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Baalbergen, Sarah van,|d1607- approximately 1638|vFiction. 650 0 Women artists|zNetherlands|vFiction. 650 0 Painting, Dutch|y17th century|vFiction. 650 0 Art|xForgeries|vFiction. 650 0 Art historians|vFiction. 655 7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd
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