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Picasso's Women
Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso, 1956"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would heave preferred to paint rather than to write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a...
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Picasso: Painting is a blind man's profession..
Pablo Picasso - Two figures, 1904La pittura è una professione da cieco: uno non dipinge ciò che vede, ma ciò che sente, ciò che dice a se stesso riguardo a ciò che ha visto - Pablo PicassoMore.......
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Max Buri ~ Portrait/Genre painter
Max Alfred Buri (1868-1915) was an Swiss painter. While still at school he was given drawing lessons by Paul Volmar (1832-1906) in Berne. From 1883 he was a pupil of Fritz Schider (1846-1907) in Basle,...
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Love Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel, c. 1886
"My ferocious friend".Thus begins Rodin’s desperate cry of love to Camille Claudel in the early years of their relationship. Rodin was soon captivated by this pupil who became his assistant, mistress...
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Camille Claudel, Debussy and La Valse, 1891
Created at the height of her artistic career, Camille Claudel'sLa Valse, is a stunning example of the sophistication and skill of the young sculptress. This dynamic rendering of a couple in movement,...
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Camille Claudel | L’Abandon, 1988-1905
The present work, known in its final state as L’Abandon, can trace its origin to the 1888 plaster by Claudel known as Sakountala. Based on the eponymous Indian legend of the 5th century in which the...
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Adolfo Tommasi | Macchiaioli Art Movement
Adolfo Tommasi (1851, Livorno - 1933, Florence) was an Italian painter.Having left Livorno, Tommasi moved to Florence, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and met Silvestro Lega, who taught...
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Eric Fischl, 1948 - Figurative Neo-Expressionist painter
Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand...
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Jan Mankes | Symbolic Realist painter
Jan Mankes (15 August 1889, Meppel, Drenthe – 23 April 1920, Eerbeek) was a Dutch painter. He produced around 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30....
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Harald Engman | Cityscape painter
Harald Rudyard Engman (1903-1968) was a Danish painter. Above all, he is remembered for his fierce use of satire in criticizing and resisting the German occupation of Denmark during World War II....
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Stanislas Lepine | Seine painting
Born in Caen in 1836, Victor Edouard Stanislas Lépine (1836-1892) began his artistic career following the manner of the ship-painter Johan Barthold Jongkind and specialising in the rendering of...
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Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen ~ Surrealist /Abstract painter
Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen (December 24, 1909 - September 13, 1957) was a Danish painter, writer and art theorist.Born in Copenhagen, he studied under Axel Revold at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine...
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Robert de Niro | Abstract Expressionist painter
Robert Henry De Niro, better known as Robert De Niro, Sr. (May 3, 1922 - May 3, 1993) was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.Robert De Niro, Sr., was born...
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Paul Cézanne ~ The Drawings /Watercolours
"C’è una logica colorata: il pittore non deve che obbedire a lei, mai alla logica della mente"."There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other"Paul...
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Boris Grigoriev | Russian Avant Garde movement
Boris Dimitrievitch Grigoriev /Бори́с Дми́триевич Григо́рьев was a Russian painter born in Moscow. He was a part of the Russian Avant Garde movement who also wrote regularly for the magazine...
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Francesca Strino, 1979 | Figurative painter
Francesca Strino was born in Naples, Italy. Francesca Strino’s powerful paintings reflect the influence of her father, Maestro Gianni Strino. She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli...
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Jonas Lie | Impressionist seascape painter
Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter. He is best known for colorful paintings of coastlines of New England and city scenes of New York City.Jonas Lie was...
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Mario Mafai | The Roman school
Mario Mafai (12 February 1902 – 31 March 1965) was an Italian painter. With his wife Antonietta Raphaël he founded the modern art movement called the Scuola Romana, or Roman school.Mafai left school...
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Antonietta Raphaël | The Roman School
Antonietta Simonovna Raphaël Mafai (1895 - 5 September 1975) was an Italian sculptor and painter of Jewish heritage and Lithuanian birth, who founded the Scuola Romana (Roman School) movement together...
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Giorgio Morandi | Modern Still Life painter
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 - June 18, 1964) was born on July 20, 1890, in Bologna, Italy, one of the oldest and most prestigious University towns in Europe. Nearly all his life was spent there...
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