The Girl in Blue

Hunting down the whereabouts of a French Impressionist masterpiece and the little girl frozen in time (Paris, elsewhere in France, Switzerland; Belle Époque era to 2024): A ten-year art detective pursuit, spanning more than a century of history. A painstaking trail pouring through recently released and older documents in numerous archives and libraries. A hunt likened to a “narcotic.” “Writing this book has felt like an act of salvage,” acknowledges Dorothy Carvajal, a seasoned, international investigative journalist and art specialist, impressively turning a famous artist’s portrait into far “more than a painting.” Like art perceived as greater than what’s seen on the surface, The Girl in Blue tells a hidden true story from multiple perspectives – historical, religious, cultural, political – painting a dark undercoat depicting how a society can breakdown when art is “bound up with race, nation, and justice.” Lurking is a story on the rise of antisemitism in a nation once a safe haven…