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Art ForgerB A Shapiro,B A ShapiroPublisher: Algonquin BooksMay 21 2013EAN: 9781616203160ISBN: 1616203161Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be delivered to your a ddress or picked up in the store.Synopsis: 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. Show more