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Jeanne (Friedberg) Ebstel was born on March 31, 1905 in London, England. Her family moved shortly thereafter to the United States and settled in New York City. She worked for years as a legal secretary, at one point helping with a case that was ultimately presented to the United States Supreme Court. She took up the visual arts in the late 1930s while recuperating from an illness. She met John Ebstel, a painter and photographer in 1946, and they were married after a year of courtship in 1947. They moved to the cooperative apartments on the Lower East side in 1949. Both Jeanne and John were actively involved in the artistic, cultural and political life of New York City. She studied at the ASL (Art student League) of New York - a well known art school). In addition to sketches and paintings, she also occasionally took photographs. After a prolonged illness of more than a decade Jeanne Ebstel died on January 27, 2000.

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Jeanne (Friedberg) Ebstel was born on March 31, 1905 in London, England. Her family moved shortly thereafter to the United States and settle
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Virginia Patrone (born 31.03.1950 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan visual artist who worked in Uruguay before moving to Spain in 2003. Via Wikipedia

margotfonteyns: “Elisabeth Welch photographed by Angus McBean for the London stage revue Tuppence Coloured, 1947. Welch was one of three main stars in the revue along with Joyce Grenfell and Max Adrian, and the trio made such a hit that they...

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Elisabeth Welch photographed by Angus McBean for the London stage revue Tuppence Coloured, 1947. Welch was one of three main stars in the revue along with Joyce Grenfell and Max Adrian, and the trio made such a hit that they re-teamed four years later for Penny Plain (both titles were a now archaic reference to toy theatres). Welch performed a variety of numbers in the show in both a sincere and satirical vein (including a smart send-up of existentialism titled Sartre Resartus), but by far the most famous was a song she had personally brought to Britain as a souvenir from Paris, and proceeded to popularise both in London and throughout the provinces:

“Right after the war, in October 1946, I went to Paris to look up some friends, and it was there that I first heard this name, Édith Piaf. Everyone was talking about her and she was playing at a wonderful theatre called the Olympia, an enormous house, so I went to see her. I’ll never forget that evening. This little waif appeared on the stage and walked to the centre. There was no glamour, or beauty, but when she opened her mouth you were absolutely fascinated by the passion and the force that came out of this woman. She was so fantastic. … I found a copy of ‘La Vie en Rose,’ and brought it to London but I had no place to sing it. The following year Laurier Lister started his series of revues with Tuppence Coloured. When we were putting it together I submitted some songs, threw a few music sheets on the floor for Laurier to look at, and he said ‘What’s that over there?’ He’d seen Piaf’s face on one of the music sheets. I said ‘I can’t do that because it’s French’ and he said ‘Why not?’ So we put it in the show but I said if I sing it, I sing it in French because when they make translations they’re diabolical. Tuppence Coloured was a big success and everywhere I sang ‘La Vie en Rose,’ on tour in places like Aberdeen and Liverpool, and then in London, it had a fantastic reception. It’s a beautiful song, even if you don’t know French. I love the song because it’s from the heart, and Piaf sang it from the heart. I’m so proud I introduced it to Britain.” –  Elisabeth Welch

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I Leave My Windows Open At Night - Ivana Carman , 2020.

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Acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas , 60 x 96 in