The unknown masterpiece =

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"One of Balzac's most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius - or both. This work, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave film director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."". "Published here in an outstanding new translation by the poet Richard Howard, The Unknown Masterpiece appears, as Balzac intended, with Gambara, a grotesque and tragic novella about a composer undone by his dreams."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Fiction,  Painters,  Artistic masterpiece in fiction,  Painters in fiction,  Artistic Masterpiece,  Poussin, Nicolas, in fiction,  France in fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  France, fiction,  Art in literature,  Painting in literature,  Inspiration in literature,  Artists' books,  Specimens

People: Nicolas Poussin (1594?-1665)

Places: France