Portrait of an unknown woman / Camille de Peretti ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peretti, Camille de, author.

Contributor:

Serle, Hildegarde, translator.

Standardized Title:

Inconnue du portrait. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918. Portrait of a Lady--Fiction.

Klimt, Gustav.

Artists' models--Fiction.

Artists' models.

Genre:

Novels

Translations

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2026.

Summary:

"A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting. Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019. No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves."-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Translation of: L'inconnue du portrait

ISBN:

9798889661788

OCLC:

1572067605

Publisher Number:

90104338150