Watkins, Paul

Summary: At the turn of World War II, David Halifax is a young American painter who receives a scholarship to come to Paris and work under the tutelage of the mysterious and brilliant Russian painter, Alexander Pankratov. Getting more than he bargained for, Halifax is quickly subjected to Pankratov's rigid will, and beguiled by the quiet, nude model who poses before them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2000

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Shapiro, Barbara A.

Summary: Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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Shapiro, Barbara A.

Summary: Almost 25 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. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner, Aiden Markel by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013

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Green, Jocelyn

Summary: "With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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McDermid, Val

Summary: "The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020

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Davies, Robertson

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1986

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Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

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Baer, Marianna

Summary: Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023

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