The last painting of Sara de Vos / Dominic Smith.
Publication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2016.Description: 374 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781743439951
- Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction
- Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607- approximately 1638 -- Fiction
- Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction
- Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Historical fiction
- Women artists -- Netherlands -- Fiction
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Fiction
- Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction
- Art historians -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- Winner 2017 Indie Book of the Year - Fiction.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SMI | Available | 064619 |
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.
Winner 2017 Indie Book of the Year - Fiction.