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21st December 2023

La liseuse (1950-52, Birmingham Museums Trust) by French artist Roger Chapelain-Midy (1904-92) is all about the reader's concentration and self-containment. As the model is probably also French, her book could be Maman, What We Are Called Now? or Dimanche and Other Stories.

 

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