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Van Arno

Josephine Baker: Living Right is the Best Revenge

oil on canvas

32 x 60 inches (81.28 x 152.4 cm)
Framed size TBD

Artist Statement
"A St. Louis street urchin, she escaped racist New World, to make a racy fortune off of race in the Old World. By the 1940s she was so famous that she could carry information for the French resistance throughout occupied Europe, without fear of her underwear being searched."

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