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Book Talk
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free but registration requiredAugust 30
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Rose Valland’s unique role, that of a female spy working on behalf of the French Resistance, has long deserved its own special treatment. Michelle Young’s new book The Art Spy places Valland at the center of the action and illuminates aspects of her personal life and details about her spying methods that have received scant attention in the past.
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Girl in Blue — The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir’s Portrait of a Jewish Girl in Paris
free but registration requiredNovember 15
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 wartime journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers — the Jewish model who survived in Nazi-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.