The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic SmithMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Told from 3 different points of view/times in history, this book is going to the top of my favorites list.
Amsterdam 1635, where Sara de Vos, only female member of the painter's guild lives and works. Her child has died and her husband heavily in debt, has fled in order not to go to jail and abandoned her. In order to pay his debts she must paint -to order- for one of her husband's creditors.
NY 1958, where the last of Sara's paintings now hangs in the elegant penthouse of Marty de Groot. One of his ancestors bought it in the 17th century and it made it's way to America. Here it is stolen and then falsified by art student Ellie Shipley.
Sydney 2000, Ellie is now a respectable art teacher and researcher, always afraid that the past, and the forgery, will catch up with her.
But is this painting Sara's last work? As another painting surfaces, along with the forgery and the original, all the parts of the story lock into the others to reveal what really happened, both in Amsterdam and in NY, and that will be revealed many years or centuries later, in a different continent.
Beautiful book, impeccably written, 5 stars at least!
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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