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The Unknown Masterpiece: Signed Limited Edition of 50 Copies with Original Paintings Used for the Binding
The Unknown Masterpiece Signed Limited Edition of 50 Copies with Original Paintings Used for the Binding Author:Honore de Balzac, Callum Innes One of Honore de Balzacs most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on ones perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave dir... more »ector Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashtons words, a fable of modern art. Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, The Unknown Masterpiece appears, as Balzac intended, with Gambara, a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams. "The greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and perhaps of all time." -- The New York Times« less