It sounds enticing at first, but their business plan is complicated when the two become romantically entwined. Aiden convinces Claire to make a forgery of After the Bath for him to sell, in exchange for a chance to show her own art in the Markel Art Gallery. Aiden, however, shows up at her studio with the Degas piece, After the Bath, which was famously stolen from the Gardner Museum decades ago. Exiled by the Boston art community because of an incident in her past, Claire is thrilled when renowned gallery owner Aiden Markel asks to see her work. Claire works for “” as a day job, making high-end copies of famous works for collectors. Shapiro’s 2010s-era heroine, Claire Roth, is a struggling painter with a talent for reproducing Impressionist paintings. The theft sets in motion the backdrop for Barbara Shapiro’s new novel, The Art Forger, part mystery, part romance, part historical fiction–but all-around entertaining. In 1990, two men disguised as policemen broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole Edgar Degas’ Impressionist painting After the Bath.
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