#misia sert

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Edouard Vuillard

Misia Natanson in Cannes

1901

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Misia Sert, 1872-1950, (born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska; 30 March 1872 – 15 October 1950) was known primarily as a patron of contemporary artists and musicians during the decades she hosted salons in her homes in Paris. Born in Tsarskoye Selo, 13 miles outside Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire and of Belgian, French and Polish descent, she became a professional pianist and gave her first public concert in 1892. She was a patron and friend of numerous artists, for whom she regularly posed, appearing on magazine covers and posters. Her salons were frequented by contemporary writers and musicians played their newest works. via Wikipedia

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Misia Sert by Horst P. Horst, 1947

"Our last day in Venice...What things, what things we've seen! Venice is so much more beautiful, not only than I had imagined, but than anything I believed possible. First, our arrival. I flung myself into a gondola, and just the idea that it was real, that I was really in it, was so overwhelming that it was painful...We spent a week in ecstasy. At times, I closed my eyes, unable to bear so much splendor. And at the slightest thing, for no reason at all, I would weep for joy."

-- Misia Sert on her first trip to Venice

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Edouard Vuillard, Thadée and Misia Natanson in their apartment, Rue Saint-Florentin, Paris, 1897/ 1899

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Jean Edouard Vuillard, The nape of Misia's neck, 1897/ 1899, oil on cardboard, 13 x 33 cm, Private collection

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Portrait of Misia Sert (Jeune Femme au Griffon)

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

Date: 1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Barnes Foundation Art Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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Misia Sert

Artist: Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

Date: 1904

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United States

Description

This is a portrait of Misia Sert, née Godebska, who was the darling of the highest artistic circles in France at the turn of the twentieth century. It is hard to overstate quite how glamorous and influential she was: the local newspapers dubbed her the 'Queen of Paris’. A talented pianist, she associated with nearly all the most famous artists, writers and musicians in the city and sat for portraits by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Renoir painted her portrait seven or eight times, each of which required three day-long sittings per week for a month. This is one of the best known. It is dated 1904, the year she turned 32 and divorced her first husband. Renoir has captured her shimmering glamour and poise but also perhaps something of her emotional turmoil – she seems to be looking directly at the viewer yet not quite focusing on us.

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Adored by Many, but Loved by Chanel: A Forgotten Parisian It Girl

Proust, turned her into a fictional princess and Ravel turned her into music. Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec couldn't stop painting her. Picass

Misia was born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska in 1872, just outside of St. Petersburg, Russia, to a prominent sculptor to the Czar (her mother passed away in childbirth) who didn’t have much interest in raising her. So Misia was shipped off to Belgium to live with grandma and grandpa Servais. She grew up playing piano on the knee of family friend Franz Liszt, and was sent to boarding school in Paris.

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Misia Sert - Wikipedia