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  Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos
becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not
paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot
shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a
group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.
  

 New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a
wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless
landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student,
Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways
no one could predict.
  
  Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting
an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that
both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully
constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.
  
  PRAISE
  “An elegant
page-turner that carries its erudition effortlessly on an energetic plot . . . His narratives may be complex, but that
quality only enhances their suspense . . . Apart from the story’s firm historical grounding, the narrative has a
supple omniscience that glides, Möbius-like, among the centuries without a snag . . . Smith’s 1637 is as
convincing a realization as his 1957 or 2000, Amsterdam in its Golden Age no less vivid than millennial Manhattan . . .
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos may begin as a mystery about a crime, but by the end the reader sees far beneath that
surface: All along it was a mystery of the heart.” —Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review
 

  "Riveting . . . His descriptions are beautifully precise . . . The genius of Smith’s book is not just the
caper plot but also the interweaving of three alternating timelines and locations to tell a wider, suspenseful story of
one painting’s rippling impact on three people over multiple centuries and locations . . . Smith’s book
absorbs you from the start." --Washington Post
  
  "Lustrous . . . Fans of epoch-hopping fictions such as
Cunningham's and David Mitchell's will enjoy tracing understated commonalities between the various plot lines and
period-specific settings, which Smith nimbly depicts . . . Both melancholy and defiant, Smith's novel leaves us with the
sense that the truths we make are no less valuable for being inexact." --Chicago Tribune
  
  “Written
in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, “The Last Painting” is gorgeous
storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human
heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of gender and class, it’s fiction that keeps you up
at night — first because you’re barreling through the book, then because you’ve slowed your pace to
a crawl, savoring the suspense.” —Boston Globe
  
  “Rapturous . . . Smith’s writing
is incandescent from the first sentence . . . With a virtuoso sense of place, [Smith] pulls you into very different
worlds . . . In this extraordinary narrative, lives, like paintings, can be great works of art, dependent on the
minutest of decisions and happenstance. So, too, can novels, and in this sublime work about longing, creativity, love
and loss, Smith explores what is authentic and what is hidden, on both the canvas and in the human heart.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
  
  "This beautiful meditation on love, loss and art is as luminous as a
Vermeer." —People
  
  "Equal parts suspense tale and exploration of beauty and loss, this vivid novel
charts the journey of one 17th-century Dutch painting as it passes through time, nations, and the lives of all who touch
it." —O, The Oprah Magazine
  
  "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos does what the best books can do:
sweep the reader into unfamiliar worlds filled with intriguing characters . . . [a] true pleasure to read."
—Bookpage
  
  “Audacious . . . Absolutely transporting” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR
  "Art fans and historical fiction fans, this one's for you . . . Get ready to be blown away." —Bustle
 

  "In the company of recent art world novels such as Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Peter Heller’s
The Painter, along comes Dominic Smith’s The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, a sublime tale of one woman’s
lost art, another woman’s tragic mistake, and a privileged man’s link between the two . . . Smith excels
at offering insight into his reserved characters’ psyches through subtle details and masterfully juggles time and
place, as well as the various machinations, with dexterity and a lyrical touch for description. There’s a lovely,
genteel beauty here. As with Vermeer’s still lifes, the novel has a serene quality that belies its tension and
intrigue." —Dallas Morning News
  
  "Lovely, quietly resonant . . . Smith [has a] singular gift for
conjuring distant histories. In his hands, the damp cobblestones and canals of 1600s Holland and the shabby gentility of
Eisenhower-era New York feel as real and tactile and tinged with magic as de Vos’ indelible brushstrokes."
—Entertainment Weekly
  
  "n his new novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian-American
writer Dominic Smith removes the barriers between the artist, the work and the viewer in a moving exploration of the way
art impacts us . . . Laced with subtle tension and emotion, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is exquisitely human,
highlighting characters who are endearing even at their worst. Smith’s novel illustrates why art remains a
powerful force, both for those who create it and those who view it." —Paste Magazine
  
  "A beautiful,
patient, and timeless book, one that builds upon centuries and shows how the smallest choices—like the chosen mix
for yellow paint—can be the definitive markings of an entire life." —Kirkus (starred review)
  

 “Highly evocative of time and place, this stunning novel explores a triumvirate of fate, choice, and consequence
and is worthy of comparison to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Donna Tartt'sThe Goldfinch . . . Just as
a painter may utilize thousands of fine brushstrokes, Smith slowly creates a masterly, multilayered story that will
dazzle readers of fine historical fiction.” —Library Journal (starred review)
  
  "In this
wonderfully engaging novel, centered on the paintings of fictional seventeenth-century Dutch artist Sara de Vos, Smith
immerses the reader in three vibrant time periods . . . Rich in historical detail, the novel explores the immense
challenges faced by women in the arts (past and present), provides a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of the art world
across the centuries, and illustrates the transformative power and influence of great art. An outstanding achievement,
filled with flawed and fascinating characters. —Booklist (starred review)
  
  "A mesmerizing and
magically faux historical novel . . . The Last Painting of Sara de Vosis a splendid thing: a riveting mystery set in the
rarified world of art collection about a stolen masterpiece and a gorgeous, haunting novel rooted in history, an
incandescent achievement of literary imagination." —Jeanette Zwart, Shelf Awareness
  
  "As in Girl
with a Pearl Earring, the technical process and ineffable aspects of creating a masterpiece enrich this novel, but Smith
had to invent his masterpieces because no works survive by the real-life Sarah van Baalbergen, who was the first woman
admitted to the Guild of St. Luke. Smith’s paintings, like his settings, come alive through detail: the Gowanus
Expressway, ruins of an old Dutch village, two women from different times and places both able to capture on canvas
simultaneous beauty and sadness." —Publishers Weekly
  
  “Gliding gracefully from grungy 1950s
Brooklyn to the lucent interiors of Golden Age Holland and the sun-splashed streets of contemporary Sydney, the novel
links the lives of two troubled, enigmatic, and hugely talented young women, one of them an artist, the other, her
forger. A page-turning book with much to say about the pain and exhilaration of art and life.” —Geraldine
Brooks, author of The Secret Chord
  
  “The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a story told in layers of
light. From afar, this novel is so beautiful, the prose so clear and vivid, that it seems effortless; on closer
examination, one sees the rich thematic palette Dominic Smith has used. This is a novel of love and longing, of
authenticity and ethical shadows, and, most compelling, of art as alchemy, the way that it can turn grief to profound
beauty.”—Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and the New York Times-bestselling Arcadia
  
 
“As this story of art, beauty, deception, and the harshest kinds of loss ranged over continents and centuries, I
was completely transfixed by the sense of unfolding revelation. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is, quite simply, one
of the best novels I have ever read, and as close to perfect as any book I’m likely to encounter in my reading
life. One of those rare books I’ll return to again and again in the coming years.”—Ben Fountain,
author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, a National Book Award finalist
  
  “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 result is a novel of surprising beauty and piercing suspense. I couldn't stop turning the pages even while
the last thing I wanted was to reach the end.”—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
 

  "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a deeply researched, beautifully written, intellectually absorbing novel
that also has the qualities of a page-turner . . . I doubt you will be disappointed: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is
a tremendous story of art, deception, love, ambition and the place of women in the world, and in history. From the
opening pages you know you are in the hands of a writer at the top of his game." —The Australian 						

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