Léopold et Aurèle Robert dance Olivia Wenzel

Olivia Wenzel

For Piece of Colonne

Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’ and across 132 pages we’re offered an intimate study of Parisian society from the early 2000s

as pioneering today as when Albers first created it

Léopold et Aurèle Robert dance Olivia WenzelSwiss painter Lopold Robert (17941835) is emblematic of the romantic myth of the artist with a tragic destiny. Educated in Paris at the cole des Beaux Arts and in the studios of artists Jacques Louis David and Edouard Girardet, he moved to Italy in 1818. With the substantial assistance of his brother and fellow artist Aurle (180571), he created idealized depictions of Italian brigand life and gained recognition throughout Europe. Yet, his success as a