Now she knew for sure. An established artist she admired profoundly had judged her his equal.

It felt to Lally as if she were being presented to the painting rather than the other way around.

The birth of a girl was apparently only a minor setback for Antony once Estelle promised him they would ‘try again’.

A man’s death leading to a life-changing amount of money. How it felt like receiving a paycheck for the work of enduring their cruelty.

is this money dirty, is all money, is it real freedom if it is bought …

If Frick was the dick he sounded like, it made her furious to think of how his money shaped the market and perceptions of art in his own time. And still

All the so-called ‘estate sales’ that were eighty per cent second-hand furniture superstore trash.

Men always thought women cost them money, but really women were saving them money all the time.

You just had to ask yourself, is this a deviation from the vision?