Publisher's Synopsis
"Genius story about Ecole des Beaux-Arts student!" Kirsten Lobe Author of French Hangover and French Trysts
"What a pleasure it is to be in the Paris of 1907- to visit the studios of Marie Laurencin and Picasso, to walk the halls of the Beaux Arts, and to see it all through the eyes of this willful young art student from San Francisco." Ryan Harty, Pushcart Prize Winner and author of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona.
The novel, THE COLORS OF PARIS opens the door for you to the greatest art movement of the 20th century while exploring a fascinating subject: what it means to be an artist, and a woman during a time when both art and the status of women were undergoing great change.
The Colors of Paris is about the journey of a woman who refuses to accept a social life set out for her, in favor of discovering and expressing the very essence of her soul. The Colors of Paris deftly blends its vibrant fictional heroine with an array of iconic real life characters: Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, vividly bringing to life the sights, the sounds, the smells--the feel-- of an early 20th century Paris, both bursting with and battling against new ideas and styles.
