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"the one real love story of my life"

James Baldwin was 25 in 1949 when he met 17 year old Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger in a little bar called La Reine Blanche in Paris. After carousing several more bars the pair spent the night in Baldwin's bed. Happersberger was 'curious' seeing a Black American in Paris, + was naïve on the prejudices white Americans + French held. "I came from little Switzerland. The color of the skin did not play any role.". Later Baldwin would say they would "meet late in the day at a cafe + pool what money we'd managed to raise + then we'd eat. We shared everything"

It was at Happersberger family chalet that Baldwin would write his first novel 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'. Happersberger, in charge of the domestic life while Baldwin worked, remembers the moment his novel was finished when he heard Jimmy punching out loudly the final six letters "THE END."

Eventually Lucien would marry + the couple's relationship turned to lifelong friendship. Happersberger was at Baldwin's side at his deathbed in 1987

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Hans Grundig (1901-1958) was a German artist born to a working class family. After joining the Communist Party he fell in love with Jewish born artist Lea Langer. Langers father objected to her political affiliation as well as her relationship to Grundig and in an attempt to seperate them he sent her to a sanitarium ... Grundig followed. Her father then sent her to Vienna ... again, Grundig followed and there they were married. Grundig’s art was condemned by the Nazi Party and he was deemed a degenerate artist. He was arrested several times and eventually sent to a concentration camp. Langer was able to escape to Palestine where she remained until 1959 when the couple reunited ... both became professors of art

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The Letter

Paintings by husband and wife artists Charlotte Sorapure and Saled Dai

Sorapure says of her 2017 Oil on linen painting:
“The sleeping man is my husband the artist Saied Dai and yes, there is a tiny self-portrait in the reflection on the desk lamp – a silent witness. The painting on the wall is also a self-portrait, and the feeling I wanted was that of my watching over him. The whole painting is a kind of love letter …”

Do we think Dai’s ‘The Letter’ is also a portrait of his wife? The 3rd painting, also by Dai, is ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Wife’ (oil)

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