The three artistic giants of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Monet, Rodin and Cézanne, need no introduction. But who can name their wives? Despite the present-day interest in ‘significant others’ and in intimate details, there has been a singular absence of curiosity about these women, who disappear into the penumbra left by the glare of their husbands’ reputations. Camille Doncieux, Rose Beuret and Hortense Fiquet were all intimate with creative geniuses, yet in the literature on art they remain obscure, silent and enigmatic.

Literary Review

Jul 2008

Categories

Frances Spalding

Fine Lines

A Woman Sitting Alone

Bloomsbury and Beyond

Firing the Imagination

At Home in Kensington

Palpable Hits

Weighty Matters

Art and Maternity

Pain’s Painter

Gay At Heart

She Wrote as if She Were Hemming a Skirt

Born to Paint

Angel of the North East

Adventures In Dreamland

‘A New Mystery and Gaiety’

Last of the Bloomsberries

‘That Necessary Article Cash’

Artist of the Floating World

Menace in the Mundane

Viennese Whirls

What Lies Beneath

In Pursuit of Good Form

Painting the Blues

Upsetting the Apple Cart