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Hyacinthe Kuller Baron was born with a gift.

At age 9 she was called an art prodigy and enrolled in classes for adults at New York’s prestigious Art Students League school on West 57th Street.

She went on to paint commissioned portraits for a who’s who of Hollywood celebrities — Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Martha Raye — and her artwork joined the collections of Huntington Hartford, “Hawaii Five-O” star Jack Lord, Rod McKuen, Malcolm Forbes and others.

While living in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, she associated with other then-struggling artists who grew to become household names — Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and others.

In 1974, she turned heads when she placed a nude model in her Manhattan gallery window sitting (backward) next to the painting for which the naked women had modeled.

Today, the artist, who often used the mononym Hyacinthe, lives in Pacific Beach in a one-bedroom apartment filled