figure
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The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
I refused to pay and figured out how to shut it off myself.
It's also unclear if Epstein was associated with all of these figures or whether he attended these events.
From BBC
"I figured: 'If I'm curious about this, there's probably other people who are curious about this'."
From BBC
And just about everyone was trying to figure out how long the boom times would last.
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