“September Morn” by French painter Paul Chabas generated such scandal that it became an instant success. His most famous work, the painting is a composite of the body of a local peasant girl and the profile of an American girl Chabas (1869 – 1937) spotted in a Paris café. The painting did not garner any public interest until an American art dealer displayed it in his window and hired schoolchildren to ogle it. This provoked the wrath of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and made the artwork a sensation. “September Morn” is now displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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