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Encyclopedia: Marie Bashkirtseff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) |
 | | Marie Bashkirtseff (November 11, 1858 - October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor |
 | | Educated privately, she studied painting in France at the Académie Julian and would go on to produce a remarkable body of work in her short lifetime, the most famous being the portrait of Paris slum children titled The Meeting and In the Studio, (shown here) a portrait of her fellow artists at work. |
 | | From the age of 13, she began keeping a journal, and it is for this she is most famous. |
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