In 2017, the artist Anthony Green had a show at the Royal Academy in London called The Life and Death of Miss Dupont. This included The Fur Coat: Hazana, a life-sized portrait of the Frenchwoman in mink; a cut-out painting of the same, dressed as a young bride and flying ceilingwards on a wire; others of her, middle-aged and naked, lying on a pink satin eiderdown; studio photographs of Miss Dupont;and pieces of official paperwork recording her birth, marriage and death.
In the middle of the gallery was a cut-glass powder bowl from her bedroom. This contained its late owner’s ashes. “The show is a son’s tribute to his mum,” said Green, whose mother had been born Marie Madeleine Dupont. “At last, she’s in the Royal Academy.”
