Books featuring the "obsessed artist" trope

For some reason, the AI search feature only gives me biographies of painters like Van Gogh or Caravaggio. I'm looking for a fictional book in which an artist is obsessed with perfecting their art form (any art form - painting, music, writing, sculpture, acting, film, photography, dance, etc.).

Something like:
The Masterpiece
The Unknown Masterpiece
The Tin Drum
If We Were Villains
The Moon and Sixpence
The Forgery of Venus

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Not really an obsessed artist, but a delightful fictionalized autobiography of abstract expressionist as only Vonnegut can write Bluebeard

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The only ones I've read are oddities. The Golden Key (painting) comes to mind, but has some fantasy elements to note if that bothers you (doesn't take place in our world.)

The Fountainhead fits this category for architecture to a T but is heavily weighed with the author's unusual philosophy.

I would say Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves. The book has merits. She is a good writer but for me it is the bottom of her barrel. I mention it because it has wonderful reviews. Just not from me.

Joyce Cary’s The horse’s mouth (painting) is one I’ve enjoyed, although maybe a bit dated by now.
And don’t forget Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (Schoenberg-like composer).

Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath comes to mind.
Also Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand

I loved Forgery of Venus and wish Gruber was still alive.

The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp, and the two sequels. The artist, Martha, is a young child in the first book, so it might not be quite what you are looking for, but the trilogy follows her through adulthood.

>3 SandraArdnas: Thanks a lot for the suggestions!

>5 Cecrow: I am very fond of fantasy, Ayn Rand not so much. Thanks a lot!

>6 Joligula: I'll keep that in mind, thanks!

>7 thorold: Thank you!

>8 Bookmarque: I love Gruber as well. Thanks for the suggestions!

>9 merrystar: Sounds interesting, thank you!

>14 h_lew: Eek, he isn't dead. I must be mixing him up with someone else. I think he has retired from writing though some unpublished stuff he has self-published lately.

>7 thorold: goody, just checking whether somebody would come up with Cary's book. A hilarious one and worth reading :-). Only recently thought of the poor model keeping in position ...

The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova not her her best work by a long shot...but obsessive in nature.

All Done By Kindness by Doris Langley Moore is a delicious light novel in a kind of ealing comedy vein about obsession and art - trying to attribute mystery paintings to old masters.

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson might be fitting for this topic. No filler and no holds barred. One of my favorite books of all time. Shame the writer only penned one book.

Jonathan Argyll is a series of crime about art thefts and forgeries in Italy with a slow build romance running through the (6?) books. A bit cosy crime, but interesting.

The artists in these are dead old masters, the obsessives are art dealers, con men and collectors, and the police art squad are phlegmatic but dogged.

The Agony and the Ecstacy is sort of a classic in this category, just thought of it.