Tag: Proust

Meet the woman who shot up with Coco Chanel, inspired Proust, and was painted by Renoir

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 ha...