Riveting... This page-turner will delight art history and mystery fans alike." ― Publishers Weekly. It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents’...
Language: English Publisher: New Vessel Press (January 11, 2022) Pages: 256 pages ISBN-13: 978-1939931986 Dimensions: 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
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