By Lipton, Eunice; Manet, Édouard; Meurent, Victorine; Lipton, Eunice; Meurent, Victorine; Manet, Édouard
ISBN-10: 0801468256
ISBN-13: 9780801468254
ISBN-10: 0801486092
ISBN-13: 9780801486098
Eunice Lipton was once a fledging paintings historian whilst she first grew to become intrigued by way of Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century version who seemed in Edouard Manet's most renowned work, purely to fade from historical past in a haze of degrading rumour. yet had this daring and lively good looks particularly descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death-or did her lifestyles, hidden from historical past, take a unique direction altogether? Eunice Lipton's look for the reply combines the suspense of a detective tale with the revelatory strength of paintings, peeling off layers of lies to bare startling truths approximately Victorine Meurent-and approximately Lipton herself
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In the evening she'd sit in the kitchen with her girlfriends just on the other side of a cardboard divider from my desk. Every day I'd ask her not to do this"Ma, I'm trying to work"-but she'd forget. And there 23 ALIAS OLYMPIA they'd sit and smoke, talk and laugh and drink coffee. I'd hear nuts cracking and candy dishes sliding along the table top, and "Can you believe what's going on in Mississippi? Those Negroes really have guts"; or "My goddamn husband .... " Sometimes, I became so irate that I'd slam into the room and scream at her right in front of her friends , "Why can't you let me work?
Do I take the streets briskly, arriving in five quick minutes at my destination? Or do I choose the Palais-Royal garden route? I can't resist the gardenthe blood-red roses, the silver statues, the history. Especially the memories of Colette high up behind one of the merry striped awnings. And then, depending on my mood, I can or cannot forgo the calming rhythm of the arcades or the conjuring of eighteenth-century revolutionary uproar-prostitutes, journalists, noblemen, and bourgeoisie thrown into unexpected intimacy.
And there 23 ALIAS OLYMPIA they'd sit and smoke, talk and laugh and drink coffee. I'd hear nuts cracking and candy dishes sliding along the table top, and "Can you believe what's going on in Mississippi? Those Negroes really have guts"; or "My goddamn husband .... " Sometimes, I became so irate that I'd slam into the room and scream at her right in front of her friends , "Why can't you let me work? How many times do I have to ask you? " She'd look up stunned. What had she done? She'd make excuses to her friends, and they'd leave.
Alias Olympia : a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire by Lipton, Eunice; Manet, Édouard; Meurent, Victorine; Lipton, Eunice; Meurent, Victorine; Manet, Édouard
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