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The Alphonse Mucha painting “Star,” also called “Woman in the Wilderness,” and “Siberia,” is powerful. A Russian peasant woman sits on a field of snow, with her feet straight out before her. Wrapped in a heavy shawl draped over her head, she turns her face to the sky, where a single star pierces the night-gray sky.