the NYT on two artists

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Suzy Menkes, about A Master of Embroidery Remembered:

Mr. Lesage’s grandchildren also spoke, describing vacations in Corsica, where their nocturnal grandfather would play with their computer games half the night and then sweep them off on a boat in the morning.

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Mr. Lesage deeply appreciated the poetic essence of his work, saying "embroidery was the love of writing your dreams with a needle, with a pearl with anything that could enchant and bring tenderly to life a décor, an ambiance, a souvenir."

Those words were at the heart of Mr. Lesage's work. But the secret of his creative longevity was to embrace the new, as well as establishing profound relationships with designers, working in their individual cultures.

Laurel Graeber, Homage to a Picture-Book Rebel (on Ezra Jack Keats).