The improbability of love6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rothschild gives us a huge cast of interesting characters including dodgy art dealers avaricious Sheikhs exiled Russian oligarchs and other potential purchasers who know nothing about art but are keen to either advertise their own power and wealth or launder their funds. Needless to say he dumps her before she has the chance to present it to him, but we already know from the opening chapter that it will soon to be up for auction and expected to sell for more than Cezanne’s The Card Players that fetched $278 million in 2011. Our heroine, Annie, is a 31-year-old singleton chef, getting rather desperate to find a suitable partner, who when looking in a junk shop for a gift for a man she’s met at a speed-dating agency, acquires the painting for an extravagant £75. The title is the name of an (invented) painting by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), (pronounced What-Ho as in Bertie Worcester), the French Rococo artist, who died in abject poverty aged 36. ![]() “The Improbability of Love” is a brilliant first novel by Hannah Rothschild, who apparently is a documentary film maker, but also the daughter of the Fourth Baron Rothschild, (the banker), and the first female Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery, (so knows a bit about art). ![]()
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