"The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and an exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue
I
The Journey Begins
A Corner Table
First Croque
Not the Mona Lisa
The Girl’s Aura
The Red and the Black
Meet Aura’s Cousin, Patina
The Red and the Gold
Heureux Hasard
From Russia With Art & Soul
Not So Heureux Hasard
On a Roll
Return To the Scene of the Crime
A Red Letter Day
Abandoned, Anonymous and Unfinished
Gleaning 101
Framing The Girl in Black and Gold
The Vernissage
A Christmas Salon Chez Robert
Finish the Unfinished—a Contest
Paris, January 12, 1935
The Girl From Paris Meets the Boys From Brazil
Non Finito Redux
II
The Journey Continues
Back To Paris With a Poster and a Plan
The Gods Must Be Surreal
Unlikely Complicities
Posting The Girl
Meetup With Picasso and Balzac
Tending To My Attachments
Rue Visconti, Bonnard and More Balzac
First Contact
Poster in the Poubelle
Ritual Croques
Dashed Hopes and Mini-Croques
My Mona Lisa
String Theory In London
The École des Beaux-Arts Says Non
Full Circle At La Palette
Web Design and Poster Control
At the End Of the Day
III
The Journey Ends
Jean Dubuffet’s Swan Song
But a Painting Is a Painting
A Whodunit With Two Whos
The End Of the Story?
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Sources
Illustration Credits
About the Author
