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The unknown masterpiece

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One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both.

The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."

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NYRB Classics
0940322749 / 9780940322745
Paperback / softback
843.7
31/08/2000
United States
English
Foreign
xxvii, 135p.
21 cm
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