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In this lecture Bernier describes an artist she knew for many years, who was a poet and magician, storyteller and seer. Not only did Joan Miró show her his native Barcelona, street by street, but he also told her of his early days in Paris, with Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Calder, and others, and prized her as a friend who caught every nuance of his conversation. Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about artists, their friends, their society, and their work. With this series of DVDs, your chair at home can become the seat you couldn't buy in New York, as you watch the actual performances filmed as they were given "Live at the Met." As cofounder of L'Oeil, the influential vanguard art magazine published in Paris, Bernier became friendly with Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Léger, Braque, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Duchamp, and many other modern masters. These lectures have a depth that only a firsthand acquaintance would allow.
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