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MISIA: THE LIFE OF MISIA SERT...
What a life Misia Sert lived! Fauré gave her piano lessons. Ravel dedicated La Valse to her. Stravinsky presented her with the score of Le Sucre du Printemps. Diaghilev made her his ally; she was the only woman with whom he could feel intimate. Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Vallotton painted her, sometimes obsessively. Cocteau modeled the heroine of his novel Thomas l'lmposteur on her. In the masterly hands of Proust she became two people, Princess Yourbeletieff, the young sponsor of the Ballets Russes: "One might have supposed that this marvelous creature had been imported in their...
...decided to marry Thadée Natanson, editor of La Revue Blanche. Like his bride, he lived for the enjoyment of art. Though the marriage was not permanent (nor were later ones to the fabulously rich speculator Alfred Edwards and the fashionable painter José-Maria Sert), the pattern of Misia's life was established in her 20s. She was surrounded by artists, for whom she was companion, model and muse. "Misia never claimed to be a sexual athlete; that was for the ladies of the demimonde," write Gold and Fizdale. "Still, she took it for granted that...
...pathetic way of attracting younger women into her circle who could be counted on to steal her man. She was as slow to see this as she was quick to spot the first signs of young genius. Roussy Mdivani, the lovely girl who made off with Sert, whom Misia adored, actually managed to crawl into their bedroom the last time Sert made love to his wife without Misia's realizing it at the time...
Jose Luis Sert, dean of the Graduate School of Design during the 1960s, was the principal architect for the project. The building was completed...