The Aesthete's Sacrifice
The salon on Rue de la Baume was a place where art and decay lived in the same room and neither complained. Sir Gray Hale—though everyone called him Gray, though he was not English and had never been a baron—had purchased the property in 1878 and converted it into a gallery that was less a gallery and more a cathedral to beauty. The walls were covered in paintings: Monet, Manet, Whistler,...
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