Art Biography: "CHARMED COUPLE: The Art & Life Of Walter & Matilda Gay

In very good condition, 239 pages.
This review online -- from "Lifelong Reader" on Amazon -- was so descriptive, I'm using it instead of my own synopis. Full credit given to this enthusiastic reviewer, whoever you are!

"A Charmed Couple introduced me to Walter and Matilda Gay, American expatriates in France in the late 19th and early 20th century. Walter Gay was a painter, primarily of interiors of chateaus and grand houses of France and America. Matilda was a society hostess and dedicated diarist.
Both were unknown to me before I received this book as a gift (and a very fine gift it makes, too).
The Gays were friends with important artists, writers and political figures, as well as English and French aristrocrats and many wealthy, international socialites. Quoting often from Matilda Gay's diary with its witty, observant and often acerbic comments on people she knew, author William Rieder gives brief, anecdotal accounts of the Gays' friendships with a diverse group that included writers Henry James and Edith Wharton, the artist John Singer Sargent, Robert and Mildred Bliss (who later created a beautiful home and garden at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.), Henry Clay Frick and his daughter Helen (whose house is preserved as the Frick Collection in New York City).
The text is interesting and witty, the reproductions of Walter Gay's paintings of beautiful rooms and views are delightful, and the book design is attractive. A Charmed Couple, as a whole, is a lovely, frothy concoction -- fun to read and to look at."

Very good

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Anne Longley | (203) 788-2335 | annemacrae58@sbcglobal.net

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