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About Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu

Balzac's 30-page founding tale of artistic perfectionism (1831/1837) — the painter Frenhofer destroys his masterpiece by pursuing absolute perfection, leaving only an impenetrable mass of paint and a perfect foot at the edge. The text Picasso kept on his studio walls.

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