Portrait in Red

Portrait in Red

A Paris Mystery

Harris, L. John

Heyday Books

12/2024

288

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9781597146494

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Prologue


I


The Journey Begins


A Corner Table


First Croque


Not the Mona Lisa


The Girl's Aura


The Red and the Black


Meet Aura's Cousin, Patina


The Red and the Gold


Heureux Hasard


From Russia With Art & Soul


Not So Heureux Hasard


On a Roll


Return To the Scene of the Crime


A Red Letter Day


Abandoned, Anonymous and Unfinished


Gleaning 101


Framing The Girl in Black and Gold


The Vernissage


A Christmas Salon Chez Robert


Finish the Unfinished-a Contest


Paris, January 12, 1935


The Girl From Paris Meets the Boys From Brazil


Non Finito Redux


II


The Journey Continues


Back To Paris With a Poster and a Plan


The Gods Must Be Surreal


Unlikely Complicities


Posting The Girl


Meetup With Picasso and Balzac


Tending To My Attachments


Rue Visconti, Bonnard and More Balzac


First Contact


Poster in the Poubelle


Ritual Croques


Dashed Hopes and Mini-Croques


My Mona Lisa


String Theory In London


The Ecole des Beaux-Arts Says Non


Full Circle At La Palette


Web Design and Poster Control


At the End Of the Day


III


The Journey Ends


Jean Dubuffet's Swan Song


But a Painting Is a Painting


A Whodunit With Two Whos


The End Of the Story?


Epilogue


Acknowledgements


Sources


Illustration Credits


About the Author
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20th century art; Paris cafes; American travelers; The Art Thief; The Hare with Amber Eyes; flaneur; travel memoir; french painters; walter benjamin; art history; france; modern art; travelogues; French food