Artist Offers New Glimpse of Truman Capote at La Côte Basque
Pair of Jamie Wyeth dioramas depict a bygone NYC restaurant and Andy Warhol's one-time HQ.
Truman Capote’s infamous short story La Côte Basque 1965 was first published by Esquire in 1975, as part of a preview of the in-progress Answered Prayers. It tumbled the author into a wide, negative swath and was revisited more recently in Vanity Fair. Now comes another echo in, of all places, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Per Delaware News Journal reporter Patricia Delarico, a current exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum of Art includes a diorama of La Côte Basque restaurant created by artist Jamie Wyeth in 2013.
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