Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Picture This Mystery of an Infamous Art Theft

art forger cover
Enjoy the layers of mystery
and intrigue surrounding
Degas' After the Bath

The Art Forger, by B. A. Shapiro

Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and philanthropist, founded a museum of international art in Boston. On March 18, 1990 a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered this Museum and stole 13 works of art. This true story is the catalyst for the plot in this art crime novel “The Art Forger.”

The novel’s heroine Claire Roth is a talented artist, with a question punctuating her past. Now she makes a living working as a reproduction artist for an online company. She aspires to artistic greatness in her own right, with her own paintings. . . .

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