In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching an ice skater from the edge of a wood. In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is bereft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission ...
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In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching an ice skater from the edge of a wood. In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is bereft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission to paint an intricate forgery of de Vos' sole surviving work, not realising that her decision will come to haunt her successful academic career. Gorgeously written, brilliantly conceived and executed, filled with tension and revelation, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a superb novel, one of those rare books that stops time as you read it, and one that you will want to keep revisiting for the sheer pleasure of watching a master at work.
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Very good in Very good jacket. 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.
I loved this book - Smith is a wonderful writer and has done his research. Three time periods & places overlap throughout the story - early 17th century Holland, mid-20th century New York City and July, 2000 in SydneyAustralia. Sara Vos is an inspired painter - a woman who can paint a landscape, even though the Guild disapproves. Marty de Groot is a very wealthy attorney with an inherited collection of Golden Age Dutch paintings. Ellie Shipley is an art historian with a very guilty secret. These characters are so compelling - it was hard to leave them behind. The descriptions of the paintings are technically fascinating and knowledgeable. The galleries and collectors are a shadowy world. It was very hard to put down - the pacing is just right - a slow thriller, actually. A wonder-full story.
