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Beatrix Tarot - le Rayon Bleu      2013 Sylvie Breysse      France                                                   Art Medium: Oil on canvas. Description: Sylvie Breysse is an artist, particularly given to the use of the colour blue, often depicting the human body in luminous blue tones. She has created a number of sets of cards related to tarot including L'Oracle bleu, Le Voyage d'Iris , Chloe "le Miroir de l'Amour". The Majors for her Beatrix Tarot are renamed but the association with the arcana is still visible in the artwork. Twelve of the Majors are coloured and active, while the other ten are in monotone grey and passive. She is well connected to the world of celebrity in Paris, with the Italian-born French fashion designer Pierre Cardin being one of her supporters and a major collector of her artwork.