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Language
English
Description
Emma Caan specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. Her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. When oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky unexpectedly appears with an invitation, Emma sees a way out: a new job, a new path for herself, and access to the kind of money she needs to support her unstable and recently widowed mother. But every invitation incurs an obligation. As Emma is pulled...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters--exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
TV producer Farrell Slater just stumbled on a story that might save her career...or get her killed. A prestigious New York auction house just sold a Fabergé Egg for six million dollars. But Farrell knows it is a fake. So does a college student who promised never to tell the location of the real one. And so does a cunning murderer who has already dismembered one victim...set fire to another...and strangled still another in order to carry off the greatest...
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English
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What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and delightful expert for the Roadshow, serves up his secrets and his best stories, blending...
10) Quick and dirty
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 43
Language
English
Description
"When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career--and a collection--and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In...
11) The recognitions
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Dalkey Archive edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 956 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with seventeenth-century Flemish masterpieces, Wyatt Gwyon forges original artwork amazingly faithful to the spirit and techniques of the time.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate. The Art of the Con tells the stories of some of history's most notorious yet untold...
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lunch Lady, a secret crime fighter, accompanies the Breakfast Bunch on a class trip to an art museum, but when Dee, Hector, and Terrence begin to think there is something strange afoot, she suspects nothing.
17) Athena
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Krause Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book displays side-by-side photographs of old collectibles with their new, faked, or reproduced counterpart. Includes coverage of the most popular categories: glass, china, furniture, toys, silver, etc.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious...
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