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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
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Kathryn
This book was a wonderful read for my first book of 2017! It was easy to get swept up in the world of Sara de Vos in Holland in the 1630s (very hard times), and in part of the world of art forgery in Brooklyn in the 1950s, and in the art museum world of 2000 as the original de Vos and the fake de Vos are set on a collision course!

I especially loved some of the details involved with making authentic paints, canvases, glue etc from the 1600s - and that people trying the recreate a period piece nee
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