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PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN LADY
By: Maria Gainza
A Novel
Catapult
April 2022
On Sale: March 22, 2022
192 pages
ISBN: 1646220323
EAN: 9781646220328
Kindle: B097QQXBDS
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Mystery | Thriller Crime
In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico?
On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.”
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