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Murder at the National Gallery / Margaret Truman.
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- ISBN: 0679435301
- Physical Description: 340 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c1996.
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- Baker & Taylor
Art gallery owner Annabel Reed-Smith and her law-professor husband Mac turn sleuth once again when the discovery of a long-lost masterpiece by Caravaggio and the schemes of Luther Mason, senior curator at the National Gallery, lead to theft, art forgery, and murder. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
During the mounting of a prestigious exhibition at the National Gallery featuring a newly discovered painting by Caravaggio, Mac and Annabel Smith are drawn into a high-stakes international art world in which obsession can lead to murder - Blackwell North Amer
What happens when a world-class art expert wants not only to exhibit a long-lost painting by Caravaggio but to own it himself?
Margaret Truman takes us into a heady, exciting world of genius with this story of a senior curator at the nation's famed National Gallery of Art who plans a brilliant exhibition around the masterpiece. He also begins to make another, more personal, daring plan. His masterly scheme promises prestige, fame, a small fortune, plus a number of artful deceptions - and a disappearing act that will rival the story of the painting itself.
But things intervene in the form of a demanding son, a more demanding and ambitious mistress, an unscrupulous collector, persons suddenly dead, and the fact the Annabel Reed-Smith is asked by her ex-college roommate, now the vice president's wife, to keep an eye on things at the Gallery and the coming exhibition.
Murder at the National Gallery is a look inside one of the nation's premier art institutions. It also shows us what goes into the mounting of a major exhibition, involving international trade (legal and otherwise), Customs and customs, government, and art authorities. It provides an up-close portrait of art theft, smuggling, and forgery in several places, including Italy, where they are among the nation's major industries.