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John Singer Sargent, the most successful portrait painter of his era painted this extra-ordinary portrait near the start of his career. He had hoped it would win him fame – and it did, but not particularly in the way he had imagined. The artist approached Virginie Gautreau, a famous society beauty and wife of [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...
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Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...