Édouard Manet. Portrait of George Moore. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
Entries Tagged as 'George Moore'
Introducing George Moore
0 November 21, 2023 at 6:52am by Mark Willis
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Méry Laurent: “The tall fair woman like a tea-rose”
0 November 20, 2023 at 6:23am by Mark Willis
Stéphane Mallarmé with Méry Laurant. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
George Moore remembers Méry and Manet in Memoirs of My Dead Life:
Were she not dead I might stop at her little
house in the fortifications among the lilac trees. There is her
portrait by Manet on the wall, the very toque she used to wear. How
wonderful the touch is; the […]
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Méry Laurant: The American Dentist’s Mistress
0 November 19, 2023 at 6:43am by Mark Willis
Méry Laurant. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
THe Irish writer George Moore considered Méry Laurent “the epitome of the witty, charming woman of fashion, an embodiment of the spirit of liberation from hypocrisy.” He asked her once why she did not leave her benefactor, Dr. Thomas Evans, for Manet. Evans was a rich American expatriate who secured his […]
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