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Subject: VN SIGHTING: Inconnue de la Seine
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:01:19 +1100
From: clifford <clifford@tasmail.com>
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Ophelia of the Seine
by Angelique Chrisafis

The Guardian
Saturday December 1, 2007

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2219993,00.html


The calmly smiling, beautiful face of this young woman hung in the
studios of artists and writers across Europe throughout the late 19th
and 20th centuries. She inspired Rilke, Man Ray and Nabokov. And
eventually ended up as a first-aid resuscitation model. But who was she?
Angelique Chrisafis finds out...


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