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Apr 27, 2025
Gabriële Buffet helped redefine the avant-garde. But who was she?
Acclaimed authors Anne Berest (The Postcard) and Claire Berest (Artifice) join award-winning biographer and critic Ruth Franklin for the launch of their gripping new book of family history about their brilliant, mercurial, undersung great-grandmother, Gabriële.
In the years before WWI, at the height of the Belle Epoque, a brilliant young French composer named Gabriële Buffet married a volcanic young artist named Francis Picabia. Shortly thereafter, the couple became involved with another fiery young artist named Marcel Duchamp. Their affair changed the course of art history. Though often overshadowed by Picabia and Duchamp, Gabriële was a force to be reckoned with — an independent spirit who challenged the artistic and social conventions of her time. Through meticulous research and intimate family stories, moving between Paris, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, London, and Saint-Tropez, the Berests tell a spellbinding story of love and art as audacious as Gabriële herself.
In her new biography, The Many Lives of Anne Frank, Ruth Franklin presents an audacious approach to history and the prismatic paths of memory — a deeply original work and a perfect intellectual complement to Gabriële. Hear these three brilliant writers in a candid conversation you won’t find anywhere else — reconstructing a life at the intersection of art and revolution.
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