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{{newreview<!-- Hewitt -->[[image:Hewitt_Renoir.jpg|authorleft|link=Catherine Hewitthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782738?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782738]] |title===[[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadonby Catherine Hewitt]]===|rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]], [[:Category:Art|Art]] |summary=Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of both creative and societal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters, and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…[[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782738</amazonukbr>}}
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|author= Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa