Portrait in Red
Harris, L. John The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century.While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris found an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red head covering, fixing her viewer with a foreboding gaze. The painting bore no signature, only the date: January 12, 1935. Harris embarked on a multi-year quest to...