The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
de Smith, Dominic
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 1925266184
- ISBN 13
- 9781925266184
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Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Allen & Unwin, 2016. First edition-2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. VGC. Allen and Unwin, 2016. First edition-2nd printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). Orange hardback (black lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover) with Dj (two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages but with small stain marks on the edges of the last ten pages of the book. 375pp including Author's note. Price un-clipped. Heavy book.
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El Apr 20 2016, un lector dijo:
'The cold air burns her cheeks as she skates along, pushing into long glides, her hands behind her back, the sound of her skate blades like the sharpening of a knife on whetstone. She wants to skate for miles, to fall until midnight into thi bracing pleasure. The bare trees glitter with ice along the riverbank, a complement to the winking stars. The night feels unpeeled, as if she's burrowed into its flesh. Here is the bone and armature, the trees holding up the sky like the ribs of a ship, the ice hardening the river into a mirror too dull to see the sky's full reflection… there are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace"
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is the fourth novel by prize-winning Australian-born author, Dominic Smith. "At the Edge of a Wood": a haunting and evocative landscape from the Dutch Golden Age, painted by the first woman to be admitted to the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, Sara de Vos, and believed to be her last known work.
It had been in Marty de Groot's family for over three hundred years when it was stolen from his Manhattan bedroom. It was replaced with a forgery that was so skilfully executed, it was six months before he even noticed. Police and insurance agents made no headway, but finally a privately-engaged investigator tracked down the artist.
Marty intends to confront the forger, a young Australian woman named Eleanor Shipley, who consults in art restoration and conservation, while completing her dissertation on Dutch women painters of the Golden Age for her art history Ph.D. at Columbia. But his meeting with Ellie does not go quite as he had intended.
Smith uses three separate timelines to follow the progress and fates the painting, and those people in whose lives it plays a significant role: the mid-17th Century introduces Sara de Vos and details the circumstances under which her artwork was created; the late-1950s describes the production of the forgery and the aftermath of its discovery; the year 2000 tells of the effects of the threatened exposure of the fake on a hard-won reputation.
Smith's plot is original and his inclusion of a wealth of information on 17th Century Dutch art, on the restoration and preservation of artworks and on the making of forgeries gives it a genuine feel. His characters are multi-faceted and interesting, some genuine, some misrepresenting who they are and what they know. How lives are affected by secrets kept, by regret and by guilt over past actions is a major element of this story.
Smith treats the reader to some marvellous descriptive prose: "…it strikes her that she has never painted exactly what she sees. Surely, this is the way of all art. The painter sees the world as if through the watery lens of a pond. Certain things ripple and distort while others are magnified and strangely clear" and "You live among the ruins of the past, carry them in your pockets, wishing you'd been decent and loving and talented and brave. Instead you were vain and selfish, capable of love but always giving less than everything you had" are examples.
Also: "The truer statement was that she'd used the de Vos canvas as a testing ground for her own thwarted talents, that she was reckless and lonely and angry with the world, that she craved a kind of communion, to find a layer beneath the glazes and scumbles and lead white where Sara herself still trudged through the fog of antique varnish, wracked by grief but somehow dispensing painterly wisdom."
Smith easily conveys the 17th Century, including many interesting details about everyday life and the world of the Golden Age artist in the Netherlands; his portrayal Sydney during the Millennium is equally effective; his rendering of the late-1950s is less convincing. His blend of fiction with historical fact makes for a very readable tale.
With thanks to Allen&Unwin; for this copy to read and review 4.5 stars
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Autor
- Smith, Dominic
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition-2nd printing
- ISBN 10
- 1925266184
- ISBN 13
- 9781925266184
- Editorial
- Allen & Unwin
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2016
- Palabras clave
- Smith, Dominic The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
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