Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

100 x 100 x 3,5 cm.

39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch.

Unique

 

The Famous French Collection

She sang for the Germans during the Occupation. What they didn't know: she was smuggling photographs to the Resistance, helping prisoners of war escape.

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Édith Piaf spent her life performing joy she rarely felt herself. "La Vie en Rose", looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, the dizzy optimism of first love. That song made her the most celebrated French popular singer of the 20th century. Jean Cocteau counted himself among her admirers.

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Her last words: "Everything you do in this life, you have to pay for."