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Cashmere - 1908
John Singer Sargent's most enigmatic work is surely this haunting exotic mystery. All seven figures were modelled after the artist's youngest niece, Reine Ormand. No one knows where this procession is going or who the figures are meant to represent. The arrangement of the bodies, the withdrawn placement of their limbs and the stoicism of the beautiful visible faces create a "hymn to the power of female beauty"
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