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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 ......
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Cassiopeia Vitt to sell her ancestral home. It sits on a Spanish bluff by the Mediterranean Sea, and bears the name Casa de Hace Mucho Tiempo, House of Long Ago. Trapped inside its walls are memories from a time when Cassiopeia was growing from a rebellious adolescent into a thoughtful young woman - regretful times when she often found herself estranged from her parents. Also inside are fifteen paintings, each one a masterpiece,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 288
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
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Description
In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
5) Gambit
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.
6) The forger
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The world's best art forger makes a deal with a crime syndicate to get an early release from prison, but in return he must pull off an impossible heist--forge a painting by Claude Monet, steal the original from a museum, and replace it with a replica so perfect that no one will notice. He enlists the help of his father and son and together they plan the heist of their lives!
7) Incognito
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed in Amsterdam, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It follows the story of Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods. While the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn't in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list of institutions across the United States.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Wynne tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger. His canvases would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. His handiwork is suspected in at least four Vermeers in major galleries.
10) Still life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
11) The forger
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Having received a scholarship to study art, David Halifax arrives in Paris on the eve of World War II to find himself working with a Russian artist, Alexander Pankratov, who draws him into a scheme to forge the masterworks of the Paris museums and sell them to the legion of German art dealers invading the city.
12) The last Vermeer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
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