TE15 Lithuanian Honey Cake

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visit the curies’ research laboratory on rue lhomond in the fifth arrondissement

marie was alone there and showed the painter how she and pierre wrestled with radium, and then gave him afternoon tea

in the lithograph munch sent her as a thank you present the woman scientist sits among the equipment with her hand under her cheek

the angle of vision is oblique and in the bottom right hand corner you can see the back of pierre’s neck as he sits at his desk writing in a book

marie curie looks into the light and has the same hairstyle as edvard munch’s sister in the painting “death in the sickroom”

the picture has been lost – to dream it predicts the dreamer’s death

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