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Gwen John: A Painter's Life.(Brief Article)
Gwen John: A Painter's Life, by Sue Roe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30). The impression that a portrait by Gwen John makes -- that here is a picture of a model as the model herself would have painted it -- is supported by the facts of her life. Born in 1876 in Wales, the older sister of Augustus, Gwen John first studied at the Slade and then decamped to Paris, where, in ...
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