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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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...
3) Maestra
Author
Series
Maestra novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
By day, an assistant at a prestigious London art house, Judith Rasleigh is at night a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars. She's transformed her accent and taught herself about wine-- and the art of discretion. When her efforts at a better life are destroyed, Judith accompanies one of the champagne bar's biggest clients to the French Riviera-- and finds a chance to recreate herself.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
"What's real? What's fake? Why do we care? In these times of false news and fake science, these questions are even more important than ever because they hold a mirror to the unsettling reality in which we live. Fakes Forgeries and Frauds goes beyond the headlines, tweets, and blogs to explore the true nature of authenticity and why it means so much today. The book delivers nine fascinating true stories that introduce the fakers, forgers, art authenticators...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Isabel Dalhousie now has a newborn son and has been released as editor of the Review of applied ethics. While attend an art auction she find two paintings from a now deceased artist and investigates to see if they are forgeries.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines nine authorship controversies with the goal of providing an introduction to the issues involved in each case and of laying the groundwork for eventually having a separate field of authorship studies"--
9) Art & crime
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"After his father tells him the story of archaeological treasure hunter Moses Wilhelm Shapira, who, in 1883, committed suicide after the biblical scrolls he found were denounced by his long-time enemy, an award-winning journalist sets out to determine Shapira's guilt or innocence, in a modern-day mystery,"--NoveList.
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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...
14) The forgery
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
José Federico Burgos is a failed painter turned forger trapped in surreal, menacing splendour with an enormous Flemish altarpiece; an impish vagabond, and a pair of resourceful yet intimidating twins. He drinks too much, he roams the grounds, and everyday that he doesn't succeed in copying the painting, he gets a little bit closer to what's really happening behind the high garden walls.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000 - a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill - into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn's priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he'll need to negotiate...
16) 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....
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While working at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Sophie, who fled Germany after witnessing the government-sanctioned burning of modern, "degenerate" art, steals looted masterpieces from the Nazis, replacing them with forgeries with the help of her sister-in-law, risking more than her life to keep these paintings safe.
19) Fake: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Caan is a fake. She is a copier who has become so good at duplicating nineteenth-century artworks that her versions are often passed off as originals. But she is not a criminal; her paintings are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. Emma's more than mastered a Gauguin brushstroke and the curve of a van Gogh wheat stalk, but her job is often a painful reminder of the artistic dreams she once chased...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
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