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...A few lovely focused displays on different media — miniatures, death masks, sculptural busts — draw attention to portraiture’s formal concerns; otherwise chronology is straightforward....
...The show makes the connection by displaying nearby Picasso’s beautiful grisaille painting “Tête de femme” (1942), Dora Maar’s features distorted into the mournful mask of “Weeping Woman”, based on a figure...
...Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge returns to the show’s Renaissance origins with the Capodimonte’s choicest drawings, led by two life-size charcoal and black-chalk cartoons....
...bought the fragments, reassembled the painting and went on to collect works at the heart of Manet’s story — including, here, “Berthe Morisot in Mourning”, her thin face carved in thick paint like a fearsome mask...
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