Woman With Fifty Faces Hardcover Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was (Mature)

A revelatory biographical graphic novel chronicling the elusive life and tumultuous times of Maria Lani. On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists -Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Andr Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand L ger and Suzanne Valadon among them- to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film. Unveiled as an exhibition in New York, the art works traveled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But, in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husband Max Abramowicz vanished without a trace, and so did the art. The film was never made. The Woman With Fifty Faces is about uncovering as much of the truth about Maria Lani as possible. The images that cascade through the book are stunningly beautifu