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Séraphine

The Vision Thing

MARTIN PROVOST'S Séraphine tells a story at once familiar and curious. Its protagonist is a not-quite-starving artist in provincial France on the eve of World War I. Countless narratives have led us to expect that such talented painters - contemporaries of Picasso - will struggle for recognition, only to watch hopes fade beneath the gaze of an uncaring public. And then comes the dissolution, perhaps into madness.

Séraphine's true story is that and more. Séraphine Louis, after all, was a woman when women artists were especially ignored. She was a humble and even childlike domestic, improverished from birth and formally educated in nothing, least of all art. And ...

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