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Jul 17, 2009
Out of Frame: Séraphine and Tokyo Sonata
Ulrich Tukur (Wilhelm Uhde) and Yolande Moreau (Séraphine Louis) in Séraphine Séraphine Louis (1864-1942, dite Séraphine de Senlis), the subject of the recent film Séraphine, is not exactly an unknown painter. Her work is found in only a few museums now, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Les Pommes and Tree of Paradise). She was a naive painter, an ultimately unsatisfactory but unavoidable term indicating that although she was untrained, she…