· THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS By Dominic Smith pp. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ Manhattan, Marty de Groot and his wife, Rachel, host a $a-plate dinner to Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth/5(K). And that's especially true when the author switches back and forth between time and place and character. However, author Dominick Smith has done a superb job of juggling in his new novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos". The novel, set in New York City in , Amsterdam/Haarlem in , and Sydney/New York in /5(K).
However, author Dominick Smith has done a superb job of juggling in his new novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos". The novel, set in New York City in , Amsterdam/Haarlem in , and Sydney/New York in THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS By Dominic Smith pp. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ Manhattan, Marty de Groot and his wife, Rachel, host a $a-plate dinner to. A dazzling and mesmerising story that charts the collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the w.
"In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith moves effortlessly between his seventeenth century artist and those who fall under the spell of her work more than three hundred years later. Smith is a writer of huge gifts and his descriptions of the painting and of those who fall in love with it (and with each other) are rendered with wondrous intelligence and keen wit. The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel about two people whose lives become entwined due to their mutual obsession with a 17th century Dutch artist, Sara De Vos. Marty de Groot owns De Vos’s painting, and when it’s stolen and replaced by a fake, he’s determined to get revenge. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.
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