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Girl in Blue — The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir’s Portrait of a Jewish Girl in Paris

November 15

| free but registration required

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

In 1941, a specialized German looting unit in France plundered one of Renoir’s most haunting masterworks: La Petite Irène. In her deeply researched new book, The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased, author Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers — the Jewish model who survived in occupied Paris while members of her family were deported and murdered — and of her famous portrait that was looted and passed through Hermann Göring’s hands. Their paths converge in a story of beauty and betrayal ― the painting a silent witness to what history tried to erase.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ Sunday, November 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.xxxx

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Doreen Carvajal, author of The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased, is a journalist and author who worked for more than twenty-five years at The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times, reporting from Europe on culture, media, and international affairs. Her first book, The Forgetting River, traced her search for her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in southern Spain. She lives outside Paris in Impressionism country in a stone farmhouse.

Christopher C. Gorham, who will be in conversation with Doreen Carvajal, is a lawyer, educator, and acclaimed author of Matisse at War, winner of the 20th Annual Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, and The Confidante, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Literary Hub, History Now, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston and is a frequent speaker at conferences, literary events, classrooms and book club gatherings around the country.

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Date:
November 15
Cost:
free but registration required
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