Provenance

Paris, 1895: Aaron Rostand buys his first painting---a Vermeer---at auction for 200 francs, founding his gallery and the family fortune.

Paris, 1940: Paul Drach, warned that his name appears on a Gestapo list of suspected subversives, conceals his family's precious collection of Impressionist paintings in the false front of a truck and attempts to flee the city. He is caught and tortured by the Nazis, and soon afterwards Jewish art collections all over Paris are seized.

New York, 1979: Andre Rostand tries to regain his father's paintings in an auction at Sotheby Parke Bernet. Fearful that rival dealers might be conspiring against him, he retains Alex Drach, a young art investigator to whom he has long acted as guardian and friend.

PROVENANCE is a sweeping and powerful novel about a hoard of art masterpieces stolen by the Nazis during World War II---those who collected the paintings, stole them, and now propose to sell them.