#maria lani

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Maria Lani by Man Ray, 1930

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Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941) Maria Lani (1929)

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Lani moved to Paris, inflated her resume and made “producers” of her brother and her husband… The three claimed to be working on a movie that required numerous portraits as a key plot device. Dangling the lure of filmic celebrity and Lani’s captivating persona… they got 59 artists to portray her in a little over 12 months. According to period chronicler Maurice Sachs, only Picasso refused her flat out… All the extant portraits have solid provenances, none of the artists complained of theft, and Lani didn’t disappear when the show ended, as one would expect of a thief on the lam, but continued acting in the theater and obtained French citizenship.

woman is bored, cons a ton of prominent artists into making work of her, gets bored again, moves on, no one even gets mad

... except some bitter bros a decade later who started mean gossip

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