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Mistress to an Age, by J. Christopher Herold. A topnotch biography of Mme. de Stael, who was equally at home in the drawing rooms, council rooms and bedrooms of Revolutionary France...
Soulages and de Stael have become particularly 'noticed in this country for their distinct, striking idioms. Whether these painters are, by and large, worthy and significant successors to the Picasso-Matisse era or whether their contempt fails to match their expansive delivery, is a moot question. I prefer the latter theory but, in the best tradition of La Musee D'Art Moderne de Paris, we must let time take its course...
...Academic Julian, he was nearly thrown out for flouting academic standards, wound up sharing the school's Grand Prix second prize with his Parisian wife. Approaching abstraction via Cezanne and the Cubists, Levee also shows the influence of his French contemporaries Pierre Soulages and the late Nicolas de Stael. but now feels his painting is becoming less French, more American, "less architectural, less constructed, more organic...
...almost a century and a half, Cécile (probable date: 1811) is not the novel scholars were led to believe it might be. It is an autobiographical narrative in which only the names of the characters have been changed. Charlotta von Hardenberg is Cécile, Madame de Stael is Madame de Malbee, and Constant is the narrator...
With typical irresolution, Constant never finished Cécile, but life worked out an ending of sorts. Madame de Stael found a younger lover who was not so good a conversationalist. Constant married Charlotta, and thereupon fell in love with the beautiful Madame Recamier...