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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Author
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
With his trademark humor and irreverence, Thomas Hoving, author of the best-selling Making the Mummies Dance, delves into the underbelly of the art world to reveal appalling scams, duplicitous perpetrators, and hapless dupes from the beginning of civilization to the present. From the shroud of Turin to Pre-Columbian pottery, Hoving exposes the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history - most never before published....
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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"--
Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece, attributed to Sir Anthony van...
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Language
English
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"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.
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Language
English
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"Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR--a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they've looted from Jewish families. Fabienne Brandt was a rising star in the Parisian bohemian...
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Language
English
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"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
Series
Wilde ways volume 15
Publisher
Hocus Pocus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
He's danger and a wicked, hot grin... Iris Stuart may have a small crush on her neighbor. After all, Pierce Jennings is gorgeous, muscled, and he has a laugh that makes her toes curl. But she is not going down that particular path of temptation with the former Army Ranger and current Wilde agent. Nope. Not happening. They'll stay in the friend zone because it's safer that way. Safer for her--and for him. Even if looking into his baby blues makes...
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Language
English
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"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancolico? On the trail of this mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
10) The art forger
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Language
English
Description
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The crime remains unsolved. Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this art heist than meets the eye. Claire has agreed to forge a painting for a powerful gallery owner in exchange for a one-woman show. But her suspicions about the painting lead Claire to 19th-century secrets ......
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies buys a painting by the world's first Indigenous art star, Norval Morrisseau, Hearn begins to doubt his painting's authenticity, and sues the gallery that sold it to him. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of two darkly comical feuding factions: all white people, each claiming to be the true defenders of this Native artist's legacy. The film traces the official provenance of Hearn's painting, representative...
12) Homeport
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A woman art historian and an art thief join forces to find a stolen 15th century statue of the Dark Lady, one of Michelangelo's mistresses. Love blooms between Dr. Miranda Jones, a six-foot redhead, and Ryan Boldari, a handsome Irish-Italian, but can she trust him? Lots of detail on authenticating art.
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 6
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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.
14) Quick and dirty
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Series
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
Helena Marsh novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Former Budapest cop Attila Feher would really like to see art expert Helena Marsh again, so he arranges a contract for her to determine whether a painting is a copy of a famous Artemisia Gentileschi canvas or the real thing. A simple appraisal becomes a dangerous assignment when usual eastern European gangsters show up and people start dying and the seething corruption that underlies the lost promise of post-Soviet Hungary swirls to the surface....
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
18) Crack-up
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
After a train wreck sends art critic George Steele into a mental tailspin, he's fired from his job at a New York art museum. Seems unjust, until you learn there was no train wreck. This relentless, nervy film noir explores the sinister world of violence and the monied world of aesthetics as Steele's attempt to reconstruct what really happened leads him to murder, mania and an international conspiracy that threatens the museum's masterpieces.
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Series
Language
English
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"An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage. Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kiera and her husband/investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, are eager to escape to the Highlands with their three-month-old daughter. Kiera is overjoyed for her cousin Rye and friend Charlotte who are being wed in a private...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 28
Language
English
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Description
While the Thea sisters are at the excavation site of a dig at Hierapolis, Professor Brenninger unearths a series of priceless and very old figurines, but the Thea Sisters think the discovery may be a scam and investigate.
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