The Art Forger

Acrylic palette knife painting
4×4 on canvas panel
Flower Series No 42

A book I recently devoured in 2 days is The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro. Here’s what Amazon has to say about the book..

“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. 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. 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. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.” 

I highly recommend reading it. The chapters are short, which I love. Only thing is, there were hardly any chapters that I could stop reading when I got to the end. It was hard to put down from the start. Loved it!