Summary: | The story of an artist who was originally considered a madman, a barbarian, and a sociopath. He was a painter who believed that art must be an expression of temperament but was tormented by self-doubt, who was rejected by the Salon for forty years, who sold nothing outside his immediate circle until his thirties, who had a family that he kept secret from his father until his forties, who had his first exhibition at the age of fifty-six?but who fiercely maintained his revolutionary beliefs.
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