By Philippa Tracy
The Artist opens in London, in 1957, with a woman looking at a painting by a well-known fictional artist, Edouard Tartuffe. That painting, The Feast , described by some as “an allegory of the Last Supper,” is the only painting to survive a fire in Tartuffe’s studio in 1920. It is giving nothing away here to say that, in the opening pages, we learn that the woman
