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At the gallerys opening in the spring of 2017, a sign read incorrectly Lenfest Center for the Art.
More money, more typos.
One haunts the other.
Laure is the name of the model who posed as a black servant inEdouard Manets famous paintingOlympia.
Maybe Laure, who has no last name, was from Africa.
Maybe from somewhere in the Caribbean.
Maybe she met Manet while working as a nursemaid.
Maybe she posed for other artists, maybe not.
What difference do these unverifiable discoveries make?
She is smiling, but she is also, clearly, posing.
She feels like, like many black women before and after her, just a little fed up.
But she showed up nonetheless.
Shes looking resolutely somewhere but not at us.
A criss-crossed blouse and pulled-back hair serves as armor, flexible texture against a hard-edged world.
There it will be on view at the Musee dOrsay from March 26 to July 14.
