Alain Delon
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Ada Bricktop Smith as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Ada Bricktop Smith as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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As he appears in the text:
“After an affair with the French actor Alain Delon, [Nico] had a son that he refused to claim—though it was Alain’s mother who ultimately raised the child.”
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“After an affair with the French actor Alain Delon, [Nico] had a son that he refused to claim—though it was Alain’s mother who ultimately raised the child.”
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Alfred Steiglitz
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Ada Bricktop Smith as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Purchase this original watercolor painting and all proceeds go to the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center—promoting literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience, including history and culture, through a dynamic exchange of information, ideas, and creativity.
Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Ada Bricktop Smith as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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As he appears in the text:
“Alfred Stieglitz was married when he met Georgia O’Keeffe, but she became his muse and soon his next wife. He introduced her to Paul Strand, another young artist, and Georgia and Paul began a passionate correspondence, Georgia once writing that she had to be naked when she composed her letters because he caused her to overheat. Years later, Alfred had an affair of his own with Paul’s wife, Beck. Georgia then followed suit.”
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“Alfred Stieglitz was married when he met Georgia O’Keeffe, but she became his muse and soon his next wife. He introduced her to Paul Strand, another young artist, and Georgia and Paul began a passionate correspondence, Georgia once writing that she had to be naked when she composed her letters because he caused her to overheat. Years later, Alfred had an affair of his own with Paul’s wife, Beck. Georgia then followed suit.”
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Beauford Delaney
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Beauford Delaney as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Beauford Delaney as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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As he appears in the text:
“The painter Beauford Delaney, largely unrecognized now, was admired by many artists and thinkers of his time. He was a regular in Alfred [Steiglitz’s] gallery in New York. Georgia [O’Keefe] drew a few portraits of him, one of only two people she was ever known to depict. Adored by many, Beauford was tormented by mental illness and a lifelong struggle to suppress his homosexuality. He fled America for Paris in the ’50s, never to return.”
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“The painter Beauford Delaney, largely unrecognized now, was admired by many artists and thinkers of his time. He was a regular in Alfred [Steiglitz’s] gallery in New York. Georgia [O’Keefe] drew a few portraits of him, one of only two people she was ever known to depict. Adored by many, Beauford was tormented by mental illness and a lifelong struggle to suppress his homosexuality. He fled America for Paris in the ’50s, never to return.”
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Boris Vian
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Beauford Delaney as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Purchase this original watercolor painting and all proceeds go to the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center—promoting literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience, including history and culture, through a dynamic exchange of information, ideas, and creativity.
Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Beauford Delaney as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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As he appears in the text:
“Boris Vian produced several books of fiction and poetry and translated Raymond Chandler before his death at 39. Duke Ellington, whose music had been an inspiration to him since he was a teenager, became a good friend and the godfather to Boris’s daughter when he visited Paris in the late ’40s. Juliette Gréco said Boris was something of an older brother to her.”
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“Boris Vian produced several books of fiction and poetry and translated Raymond Chandler before his death at 39. Duke Ellington, whose music had been an inspiration to him since he was a teenager, became a good friend and the godfather to Boris’s daughter when he visited Paris in the late ’40s. Juliette Gréco said Boris was something of an older brother to her.”
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Canada Lee
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Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Canada Lee as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Purchase this original watercolor painting and all proceeds go to the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center—promoting literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience, including history and culture, through a dynamic exchange of information, ideas, and creativity.
Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Canada Lee as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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“Canada Lee starred in Orson Welles’s all-black production of Macbeth, which one of James Baldwin’s teachers took him to see. It had a lasting impact. Canada also played Bigger Thomas in the stage version of Richard Wright’s Native Son in New York in 1941, also under Orson Welles’s direction. Canada’s longtime lover, Caresse Crosby, brought her friend Anaïs Nin to see the production.”
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“Canada Lee starred in Orson Welles’s all-black production of Macbeth, which one of James Baldwin’s teachers took him to see. It had a lasting impact. Canada also played Bigger Thomas in the stage version of Richard Wright’s Native Son in New York in 1941, also under Orson Welles’s direction. Canada’s longtime lover, Caresse Crosby, brought her friend Anaïs Nin to see the production.”
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