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1935 Man Ray (1890-1976), Marchesa Luisa Casati dressed as Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi), with “Flick” and “Flock” as a back-ground, at the Beaumont Ball.

She was a force of nature and made her mark on everyone she met, exerting a magnetism on her contemporaries. The marquise used the public realm as a theatre scene of a play where she was very much the star. Her every public appearance was a true show, since she wanted to be, as she said “a living work of art”.

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