On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists —Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger and Suzanne Valadon among them— to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film. Unveiled as an exhibition in New York, the art works traveled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But, in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husbandmore
The Woman with Fifty Faces' subject is an intriguing one (and the difference between how people are perceived and how they are has made for terrific comics over the years). Its comicscraft is impressive, but a combination of limited information to draw from and the narrative choices made in presenting it means it ultimately does not come together. It's disappointing. Read Full Review
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