the artist or a famous artist?

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"It was the Eugeniya Gapchinska I knew very well, the Ukrainian artist."

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"It was the Eugeniya Gapchinska I knew very well, a famous Ukrainian artist."

I haven't made up mind yet which sentence would fit better in my essay. Which sentence is better structured?
 

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The first is correct, and it is better because the second has a clash between the definite article (the Eugeniya) and the indefinite (an artist). You could make it "the famous...."
 
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The first is correct, and it is better because the second has a clash between the definite article (the Eugeniya) and the indefinite (an artist). You could make it "the famous...."

I could have left out "the" before Eugenia and followed up with "a famous artist". But in that case I would've changed the meaning, wouldn't I?
 

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I did not make myself clear. Sorry. I meant that the second sentence works if you make it, "It was the Eugeniya Gapchinska I knew very well, the famous Ukrainian artist."
 
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