L’inconnue du portrait - Camille de Peretti
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"The canvas vibrated with beauty. It took her breath away and she drowned in the sky-blue eye speckled with green. Was she really the doppelganger of this unknown woman?"
Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of a Lady was bought by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, stolen in 1997 before reappearing in 2019 in the gardens of a modern art museum in Italy. No one knows who the young woman in the painting was, or what mysteries surround the eventful history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, from Depression-era Manhattan to contemporary Italy, Camille de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman, as well as that of her descendants.
« La toile vibrait de beauté. Elle en avait le souffle coupé et se noyait dans l’œil bleu ciel piqueté de vert. Est-ce qu’elle était réellement le sosie de cette inconnue ? »
Peint à Vienne en 1910, le tableau de Gustav Klimt, Portrait d’une dame, est acheté par un collectionneur anonyme en 1916, retouché par le maître un an plus tard, volé en 1997 avant de réapparaître en 2019 dans les jardins d’un musée d’art moderne en Italie. Personne ne sait qui était la jeune femme représentée dans le tableau ni quels mystères entourent l’histoire mouvementée de son portrait. Des rues de Vienne en 1900 au Texas des années 1980, du Manhattan de la Grande Dépression à l’Italie contemporaine, Camille de Peretti imagine la destinée de cette jeune femme, ainsi que celles de ses descendants.
- Poids de l'article : 206 g
- Dimensions : 11 x 1.7 x 17.8 cm
"The canvas vibrated with beauty. It took her breath away and she drowned in the sky-blue eye speckled with green. Was she really the doppelganger of this unknown woman?"
Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of a Lady was bought by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, stolen in 1997 before reappearing in 2019 in the gardens of a modern art museum in Italy. No one knows who the young woman in the painting was, or what mysteries surround the eventful history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, from Depression-era Manhattan to contemporary Italy, Camille de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman, as well as that of her descendants.
« La toile vibrait de beauté. Elle en avait le souffle coupé et se noyait dans l’œil bleu ciel piqueté de vert. Est-ce qu’elle était réellement le sosie de cette inconnue ? »
Peint à Vienne en 1910, le tableau de Gustav Klimt, Portrait d’une dame, est acheté par un collectionneur anonyme en 1916, retouché par le maître un an plus tard, volé en 1997 avant de réapparaître en 2019 dans les jardins d’un musée d’art moderne en Italie. Personne ne sait qui était la jeune femme représentée dans le tableau ni quels mystères entourent l’histoire mouvementée de son portrait. Des rues de Vienne en 1900 au Texas des années 1980, du Manhattan de la Grande Dépression à l’Italie contemporaine, Camille de Peretti imagine la destinée de cette jeune femme, ainsi que celles de ses descendants.
- Poids de l'article : 206 g
- Dimensions : 11 x 1.7 x 17.8 cm
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