A young girl is asked to water her neighbor’s plants while the neighbor is on vacation, and her eyes are opened to art she never imagined before. A young woman hunts for clues about her father, Modigliani. A woman who was befriended by Camille and Claude Monet (and would become the artist’s second wife), suffers through the rumors and gossip following her husband’s abandonment, and Camille’s death. We see a father’s eyes opened to his young daughter after August Renoir takes an interest in painting her. The first half of the book is set in an historical time frame, the second half is contemporary. This is a collection of short stories that focus on art, but more on the people around the artist, rather than on the artist him/herself. Vreeland is best known for her historical novels focusing on various artists (Auguste Renoir, Emily Carr, Johannes Vermeer, etc).
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