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We first meet the artist as a model for Renoir, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and others in color reproductions as well as in four actual canvases, including “The Kiss of the Siren” and she comes through as charming, passionate and uncommonly self-aware.

She also appears in works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Renoir, who used her in two of his better paintings, “Dance at Bougival” and “Dance in the City.”

Gaylor’s flat figures reflect his attention to the styles of Europeans like Gauguin and Puvis de Chavannes, and to folk art, which he collected while summering in Maine during the 1920s.

Yet it could depart more from historical models like those of Caravaggio, Manet or Puvis de Chavannes.

The Nabi painters and printmakers were influenced by the flattened forms and archaic aura of the neoclassical muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by Paul Gauguin.