The tragic story of French naïve painter
Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant
who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent
critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the
wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to
descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great
Depression and World.
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