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 | | In 1905, when Misia was married to Alfred Edwards, Ravel joined them for a memorable holiday on their luxury yacht Aimèe, in the immediate aftermath of the Prix de Rome scandal. |
 | | Misia was a noted beauty who was painted many times: by Toulouse-Lautrec for a poster for La revue blanche in 1896, in which she is shown as a skater; by Bonnard and Vuillard; and, according to her memoirs, 7 or 8 times by Renoir, including a portrait (1904) which is now in the Tate Gallery. |
 | | Misia's colourful life, and its rapports with Mallarmé, Proust, Cocteau, Colette, Picasso, Massine, Serge Lifar, Stravinsky, Satie, Poulenc, and Coco Chanel among many others, are vividly told in the biography Misia, by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale (New York, Knopf, 1980). |
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