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tpixie
Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 8: The Shadow Is More Beautiful Than The Academy
🎈For the 1st time, a painter has painted something that doesn‘t represent ANYTHING. Before Picasso. Before Kandinsky.
In which Francis starts losing his vision & and seems to spend all this time in opium dens…

Rubber: by Francis Picabia

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Chelsea.Poole
Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Mehso-so

#EuropaEditions are usually hits for me but this one fell short. I also had such high hopes after loving The Postcard by the same author (one of the two). I just couldn‘t get over how selfish the titular character was presented…by her great grandchildren no less! Obsessed with her husband and they‘re both into the art scene around the turn of the century but totally uninterested in their offspring. Lots of name dropping and little parenting.

BarbaraBB That last sentence says it all 🤣 3d
squirrelbrain I agree entirely! 3d
Lesliereadsalot You‘d really have to be like these people to actually like these people! 3d
tpixie Well said! 1d
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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Gabriële‘s mAunt Alphonsine Jussieu de Challié

https://www.catherinelarosepoesiaearte.com/2022/12/alphonsine-de-challie-1858-19...

It‘s things like this that keep me going - rabbit holes
? ?️

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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 7: A Little solitude in the midst of Suns

I drag on

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tpixie Gabriële‘s essays exploring abstract art. https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100499021 4d
Lesliereadsalot You can do it! 4d
tpixie ? I do find it interesting that Gabriële‘s maternal aunt, Alphonsine is friends with female painter Berthe Moriset, who was married to Manet‘s brother, Eugène & was a famous Impressionist painter. 4d
tpixie @Lesliereadsalot 🚂 🚂 I think I can, I think I can… 4d
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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 6 left me even more totally disgusted with both Francis and Gabriële.
while looking for his paintings mentioned at the end of the chapter, I did find one of his last impressionist inspired paintings, which was rather lovely

https://youtube.com/shorts/DNHPbaYak9U?si=rnOuHwICdFmpNutl

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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 6: The Procession, Seville 1912 Francis Picabia

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They are married!

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mcctrish
Gabrile | Anne Berest Berest
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I‘ve gone down a rabbit hole back tracking the chapters I‘ve read so far @tpixie ( I‘m about to start chapter 9) Thank you so much for mentioning this 😘 #europaeditions #europacollective

tpixie @mcctrish Yay! You found it!! I‘m such a slow reader- I‘m constantly going down rabbit holes! 🐇 🕳️ 🤍🖤 2w
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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 5: Man And Woman By The Sea

I find the book well written & interesting but Francis Picabia & Gabriële Buffett are not very likable.
I find interesting what authors think of them.
At the end of Chapter 4, one relates responsibility for them & the other seeks their approval.

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mcctrish This book is so well written and engaging but I am enraged at Gabriële and Francis and their choices 2w
tpixie @mcctrish yes- I‘m not far in, but can tell I will be also…. 2w
tpixie @mcctrish yes! And she was so quick to drop her ‘Life of Music‘ that she was so passionately obsessed with- for him!! ? Was she really that passionate??? 1w
mcctrish @tpixie I‘m still raging over the waste of her genius ( I‘ve slowed down a bit too) 1w
tpixie @mcctrish Yes!!! It‘s so frustrating!!! (edited) 1w
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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 4: Francis Picabia by Francis Picabia

He made a few self portraits over the years.

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Gabrile | Anne Berest, Claire Berest
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Chapter 3: Composition by Francis Picabia

Adventures in Berlin!

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