Sargent was celebrating the completion of his portrait of Dr. Pozzi, a charismatic ladies man and gynecologist who had ungraciously tossed her aside before her marriage to Pierre Gautreau:. It looked like a portrait of the devil.

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Virtually the entire canvas was red — the sumptuous curtains in the background, the carpeted floor. The doctor himself was dressed in red slippers and the red wool dressing gown that I had seen him wear dozens of times. His pose was hypertheatrical; his face was caught in an intense observance of an object outside the canvas, and his elongated fingers tugged nervously at his collar and the drawstring of his robe.

His fingers were as sharp as pincers and seemed spotted with blood. Had Pozzi just performed a gynecological operation? I just love how Diliberto gave Gautreau such a blunt and penetrating voice. Gautreau thought about giving her business to other more traditional French portrait artists, but she may have felt a special connection to Sargent.

They were both up-and-coming Americans with something to prove to the French.

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In the winter of , Sargent moved to 41 boulevard Berthier , on the shaded side of a wide street whose light made it a popular location for art studios. It was on this street that Virginie Gautreau would have gone to pose for her portrait. Parc Monceau in the 17th, the center of the fashionable new Plaine Monceau area of the ss.


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Monet painted this park several times. By , Gautreau finally agreed to pose for Sargent. He talked her into wearing a black dress that would highlight her unusual color, which included rouged ears, white pastey skin thanks to lavender skin cream and brightly hennaed hair. At the end of the day, Sargent may have painted her color a little too well.


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He captured her true character, just like he had with Dr. Her pose was so confident it seemed haughty. But the strap was the last straw. Nevertheless, it was a disaster at the salon. Sargent soon left for the summer in London while Gautreau disappeared to Brittany, far from the judgment of Paris.

The strap is repainted.

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American women just love The Paris Wife. Ernest Hemingway was a charismatic and gifted writer, the genius of his generation, but he was also a narcissist, a cheater and a big drinker. No one better to deal the dirt than the first wife. Germain and the Luxembourg Gardens. You can follow along on a Google Map here.

Ernest and Hadley moved into this apartment, at 74 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine in a working-class neighborhood of the 5th arrondissement in January, It was a two-room flat on the fourth floor without hot water or a private toilet. Hadley later said that "the apartment wasn't ghastly. In fact, it was kind of fun. The shop with the green awning below the Hemingways' window was once a loud and popular dance hall called Le Bal du Printemps. Ernest described it as a "noisy, rough music hall and hangout for sailor, whores, 'apaches' French gang members and American expatriates, who nicknamed it 'Bucket of Blood.

Ernest Hemingway rented an attic apartment in this building at 39 rue Descartes from It served as his getaway and writing studio, and was just around the corner from his apartment with Hadley. This celebrated couple confronts each other about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and a few other delicious topics while Pablo Picasso, F. Toklas' corrective version of her life with literary giant Gertrude Stein. Name-dropping opening number "Salon Let's Talk " sets the smart tone for the musical's mise en scene -- the Parisian apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus where Gertrude Barbara Rosenblat and her companion Alice Cheryl Stern preside over a fashionable literary salon that attracts artists and writers of international renown, as well as the occasional American feminist and Hollywood movie star.

It's an inviting scene, to be sure.

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They've made Stein and Toklas human beings who are struggling through the confines of a marriage, with Stein "playing" the husband, and Toklas the wife. Koch sure likes to write waltzes; not since Night Music has a score contained so many. But they're all lovely-to-beautiful. The opening is a good deal of fun, because the waltz plays against all the ungainly subjects Gertrude, Alice, and their guests discuss. Rosenblat, who, seated, resembles portraits of Stein, plays Gertrude as a commanding bully.

Stern's Alice is a bright, attractive creature. They're strong, plausible performances. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio.

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Here is a link to the audio instead. The woman behind the woman. Madly in love with Gertrude and emotionally vulnerable. The perfect hostess to those whom she admires; no so generous to others. She is a masculine and handsome woman. A self- proclaimed genius who speaks her own mind eloquently.


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The play is intended to be performed by an ensemble of women. It can be performed with as many as 12 actresses or as few as 5. However, you could redistribute those role assignments as you see fit. Everyone but Alice doubles as paintings and wives. Librettist and co-lyricist Ted Sod has been dramaturg for the education department at Roundabout since She has co-written such warped shows as The Carpeters: Tajlei Levis , John Mercurio. Jim Brochu , Steve Schalchlin.