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| | NewStandard: 7/28/96 |
 | | That's how Marcelle Lender, a Paris operetta star of the 1890s, described the dwarfish, brashly effusive artist who was so enraptured with her that he created no fewer than 25 images of the actress-singer. |
 | | Lender a large painting of herself, or that his print of her in costume, flame-colored hair set further ablaze by two red poppies worn like plumes, had appeared in more than 1,000 copies of a magazine. |
 | | Lender, he remained the odious little fellow who had sat down, uninvited, at her restaurant table and eaten food off her plate. |
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