The last painting of Sara de Vos / Dominic Smith.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925266184 (hbk.); 9781743439951 (pbk); 1925266184 (hbk.); 1743439954 (pbk)Subject(s): Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607-approximately 1638 -- Fiction | Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 | Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction | 1600-1699 | Women artists -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Bookclub collection | Dutch art | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) | Artists, Dutch | Forgery - Fiction | Fraud | Netherlands - History - 17th century - Fiction | Painting, Dutch - Fiction | Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 - Fiction | Netherlands | Artists | Painting, Dutch | Historical fiction | Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction | Women artists | Art forgeries -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Historical fiction | Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction | Art -- Forgeries | Art historians | Women painters -- Netherlands -- Fiction | Art museum curators -- Fiction | Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction | Painting | Art historians -- Fiction | NetherlandsGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction | Biographical fiction. | Frame stories. | Historical fiction. Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PS3619.M5815 | L37 2016Also issued online.Summary: 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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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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