The Modigliani Scandal - Book Review

"The Modigliani scandal" is one of the first novels written by Ken Follett, in fact, in 1976, and is structurally very similar to "high finance" because each chapter has as its protagonist a character whose story intertwines with that of others then .

The story is set in the world of art around which multiple personalities and interests.
There the young Sleign Dee, just graduated from art history and willing to do a doctoral thesis on the relationship between drugs and art. While he is in Paris with her boyfriend learns of the existence of a painting by Modigliani and which are untraceable. He decided to go first in Livorno, the birthplace of the painter, to obtain information that will then over the hills of Romagna.
Julian Black, a penniless young gallery goes in search of lost masterpiece to consolidate its finances, particularly as the rich father does not want to grant for the opening of the new art gallery and his wife considers him a failure.

Dee's uncle, Charles Lamphet the rich, even hires a detective to get your hands on the painting and enrich its collection of artworks.
Meanwhile, the painter Peter Usher can not find a gallery willing to exhibit his works because they are cheaper exhibitions devoted to artists of the past, which provide customers safe.
To mock the art world Peter and his friend Mitch paint forgeries, intended to show that London dealers do not understand art and are only interested in artists of the past and when you are in a false do not recognize him.
Among twists there will be a joke in jest.

Although a novel very fluently as I did not like others to Follett, hence his style is still immature, too many characters detract from the plot, although at the same time enrich it.
Reading is very smooth and I read it in the blink of an eye, because nothing demanding and occasionally read something relaxing disengaged.
Interesting is the setting, shows us a world of appearance only, where has the talent but not knowledge.

Among the other seems to distinguish the actress Samantha Winacre, who generously paid his studies at her maid, who might otherwise not even considered leaving the world of celluloid, which made it rich and famous, to devote himself to good works. It's actually a slave to drugs and finds himself embroiled in the theft of works of art.

The person who most inspires me is liking the talented painter Peter Usher, who has unusual ability and can not be appreciated by the dealers.

In the art world seem to prevail the laws of finance, procurement regarded as investments and therefore the affluent buyers are moving towards the most famous painters and snubbing the paintings, sometimes extraordinary young artists, forced to live in really tight.

The hoax inventing Peter and Mitch is really fun and harmless, it takes little to fool those bloated gallery, showing not intended to paint anything!