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The Accidental Masterpiece

Michael Kimmelman

256 PAGES · LITERARY · 2005

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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.