The last painting of Sara de Vos
Smith, Dominic, 1971-2016
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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.
Main title:
The last painting of Sara de Vos / Dominic Smith.
Author:
Smith, Dominic, 1971-, author
Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2016.Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, 2016.©2016.
Collation:
374 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781743439951
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
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BRN:
33597