The Resource The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel, Dominic Smith
The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel, Dominic Smith
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9780374106683
- Label
- The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel
- Title
- The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Dominic Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
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- Title
- The last painting of Sara De Vos
- Summary
- Parallel narratives unfold and eventually converge in this multi-layered novel, which explores the legacy of fictional 17th-century Dutch painter Sara de Vos. The artist's masterpiece, At the Edge of a Wood, is stolen from Manhattan attorney Marty de Groot's Upper East Side residence in 1957 and replaced with a skillfully executed forgery that remains a secret for decades -- until museum curator Ellie Shipley, who created the fake, is confronted by the two versions of the painting. Don't miss this richly detailed and complex meditation on art and identity by the author of Bright and Distant Shores. -- Description by Gillian Speace
- Award
- Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, 2017.
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- 10472888
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.M5815
- LC item number
- L37 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Target audience
- adult
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- Dominic Smith
- Label
- The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel, Dominic Smith
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- Art forgers
- Historical fiction
- Women artists
- Biographical fiction
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction.
- Brooklyn, New York City -- History -- 20th century
- Australian fiction
- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
- Art forgeries
- Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
- Art
- Deception
- Parallel narratives
- Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Art historians -- Fiction.
- Art historians
- Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction.
- Control code
- ocn921926602
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9780374106683
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2015033152
Subject
- Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction.
- Art historians -- Fiction.
- Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638
- Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction.
- Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
- Art
- Art forgeries
- Art forgers
- Art historians
- Australian fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Brooklyn, New York City -- History -- 20th century
- Deception
- Historical fiction
- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century
- Parallel narratives
- Women artists
Genre
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Australian fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Parallel narratives
Member of
- Australian Book Industry Awards: Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- Australian Fiction A-Z - NEW!
- Biographical Fiction
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Awards of The last painting of Sara De Vos : a novel, Dominic Smith- Award
- Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, 2017.
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