Edith Wharton 
False Dawn 

Twenty-one-year-old Lewis Raycie about to embark on a Grand Tour is advised by his father to seek out works of art for a gallery with their family name. However, when Lewis returns, the paintings he has selected are not what his father expected.

Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are:

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Glimpses of Gauguin by Maryann D’Agincourt

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Printz by Maryann D’Agincourt

May Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

Shade and Light by Maryann D’Agincourt

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

The Real Thing by Henry James

The Gold Finch by Donna Tartt

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Journal of Eva Morelli by Maryann D’Agincourt

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

A Painter of Our Time by John Berger

The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland