Olga Boznańska's portrait of Natalie Clifford Barney (c1900) [NO AI]

Some time in 1900, at the artistic salon run by the American painter Alice Pike Barney at her apartment in Paris, the Polish artist Olga Boznańska painted a portrait of Alice's daughter, the writer Natalie Clifford Barney. That's what this film is about. Olga Boznańska's portrait of Natalie Barney is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/na... The image of the painting used in this video is public domain courtesy the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other images used in this video are public domain or are used in accordance with the licensing conditions applied by the rights owner. (A native Polish speaker helped me out with the pronounciation of Olga Boznańska's name but I'm not sure I quite got it right. Apologies if it is not correct.) Chapters 00:00 Introduction: who was Natalie Barney? 01:29 Natalie Barney, a lesbian icon 03:10 The many portraits of Natalie Barney 04:23 How Olga Boznańska's portrait of Natalie came to be painted 05:16 Olga Boznańska: life and career 09:00 One sitting, three portraits 10:30 Boznańska's use of fibreboard 14:25 Analysis of Olga Boznańska's portrait of Natalie Barney 18:42 Conclusion [2304] Published 6 March 2023. SELECTED SOURCES Paula J. Birnbaum, 'Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2017). Jan Cavanaugh, 'Out Looking In: Early Modern Polish Art, 1890-1918' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Amelia Dorothy Defries, 'Olga de Boznanska', The American Magazine of Art, vol. 8, no. 12 (October 1917). Jean L. Kling, 'Alice Pike Barney: Her Life and Art' (Washington DC: National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994). Suzanne Rodriquez, 'Wild Heart: A Life - Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris' (London: Harper Collins, 2002). Diana Souhami, 'Wild Girls: The Love Life of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004). Diana Souhami, 'No Modernism Without Lesbians' (London: Head of Zeus, 2020). Walter Shaw Sparrow, 'Women Painters of the World' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905)