![]() “When I asked him whether he was sketching from imagination or drawing a real person,” Marlow remembers, “he ignored me more pointedly than ever.” Then Robert lends Marlow a package of letters written in the late 1870s by aspiring painter Béatrice de Clerval Vignot to her husband’s uncle Olivier Vignot, an established artist at the Paris Salon. A painter himself, Marlow is fascinated by his patient, who refuses to speak and paints the same dark-haired woman over and over. ![]() Kostova follows up her blockbuster debut about the undead ( The Historian, 2005) with a romance about a contemporary painter’s obsession with an undiscovered 19th-century Impressionist.Īfter he attempts to slash the painting Leda at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., respected artist Robert Oliver is committed to a mental hospital under the care of psychiatrist Andrew Marlow (think Heart of Darkness). ![]()
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