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The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone    by Mary Gabriel
Price: $9.99 USD. 74520 words. Published by Bancroft Press on March 12, 2010. .

For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. In 1949, they awarded all their holdings to the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2002, that collection was valued at nearly $1 billion, making them two of the most philanthropic art collectors of our age. This is their story.
Grigionero    by Vanessa Lico
Price: $3.99 USD. 81360 words. Published by Meligrana Giuseppe Editore  on September 16, 2010. .

Grigionero è stato dipinto presumibilmente da Renoir, come si deduce dallo stile, dalle iniziali, A. R., e dalla data, 1881. Il soggetto raffigurato è un paesaggio marino che in molti hanno indicato essere la costa della Calabria, in Italia, in cui il grande maestro francese aveva soggiornato per qualche periodo. Si chiama Grigionero ma di colore ce n’è, e pure tanto.
The Van Gogh Deception    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 79670 words. Published by Rob Preece on November 18, 2010. .

Stuart S. Stuart comes to Paris to find artistic inspiration. Instead, he falls for a Mafiosa's wife, becomes a murder suspect, gets beat up by criminals searching for millions worth of diamonds, and learns that some of his student works have been fradulently sold to another Mafia boss...with the promise that they're genuine old masters. Then there are the police...
Chasing the Minotaur    by Terry Hayman
Price: $7.99 USD. 80200 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 19, 2010. .

When his wife dies in his arms, celebrated painter Emery Lake withdraws from painting and from life. To save him, his grown daughter arranges a house exchange in the south of France. But the sun-drenched landscapes are only the beginning as Emery finds a place in the foothills of Mont Sainte-Victoire where Picasso, Renoir, Cézanne, and Van Gogh mysteriously still walk and paint, scheme and love.
Paris Poems    by Jim Chevallier
Price: $3.99 USD. 2910 words. Published on August 4, 2011. .

Paris, art, poetry - they go together so well. This original collection includes a number of poems on Paris, the Seine, the gargoyles of Notre Dame, the shifting moods of the city and the nostalgia it inspires. A quirky homage to garlic ("Saloon") is followed by a number of poems on great art (Picasso, Renoir, Japanese prints). The collection ends with an elegy to the author's mother.