![]() 'The Art Forger' is a thrilling novel about seeing, and not seeing, the secrets that lie beneath the canvas. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long missing masterpiece, the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years, may itself be a forgery. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one woman show in his renowned gallery. Almost twenty five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, still the largest unsolved art theft in history, one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, very slight lean, not price clipped ($23.95), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. ![]() ![]() Stated first edition, first impression with full number line. ![]()
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