Meet the woman who shot up with Coco Chanel, inspired Proust, and was painted by Renoir
<p>Over the course of her unusual and long life, Misia Sert achieved something truly rare: a kind of immortality. The coquette of Belle Époque Paris, Sert was painted by some of the best known artists in the world, including Renoir, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vuillard. “The painters had the privilege of immortalising her miraculous looks,” <a href="http://www.clivejames.com/pieces/shadows/misia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wrote critic Clive James in the <em>London Review of Books</em></a>, “which included a legendary pair of legs and a bosom that kept strong men awake at night thinking.” She was a confidante of Picasso’s, and a friend of Proust, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Cocteau, Gide, Monet, Stravinsky and Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes. She and Coco Chanel were “soul sisters,” and likely lovers.</p>
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