Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005
What Art Does
By Richard Dorment
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
Penguin, 245 pp., $24.95
Strolling down a street in Paris one day in 1893, Pierre Bonnard spotted a pretty girl as she was stepping off a tram, followed her to her place of work, and introduced himself. Tiny, slim, and as nervous as a sparrow, she told him that her name was Marthe de Méligny and she was sixteen years old. Neither statement was true. Only many years later did he learn that her real name was Maria Boursin, and that she had then been twenty-four.
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