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In his widely acclaimed national bestseller The Accidental Masterpiece , Michael Kimmelman climbs mountains, treks into the desert, and even nearly drowns as he pursues art’s truths. He explains that great artists like Bonnard and Chardin—but also obscure obsessives, paint-by-number... read more
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BY ONE OF THOSE ACCIDENTS of fate, in 1893 the painter Pierre Bonnard was walking down a street in Paris (or so the story goes) and he spied a young, elfin woman alighting from a tram.
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- Michael Kimmelman (Author)
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