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Augustus John: Marchesa Casati 1925.
Along with portraits by Boldini, de Meyer and many others, Augustus John paints her in
1925, and captures some of the mysterious electricity of Luisa Casati - (here age 38)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Casati
The real breakthroughs in any art emerge when the artist is pushing the conventional envel- ope of what the medium is expected to do. A number of important photo-montage artists play an important role in the 1930s, and I’d like to draw your attention to just three: