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Letter: Raining on Renoir

Anne Hertzell
Friday 17 October 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: The suggestion that the young woman in the foreground of Renoir's Les Parapluies is uncomfortable only because of the attentions of the man behind her (report, 16 October) seems to me to overlook the obvious cause of her discomfort; namely the lack of an umbrella.

ANNE HERTZELL

Guildford, Surrey

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