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Claude Rogers (1907-1997) Eclipse at Blandford, 1952


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Brita Nordencreutz (1899-1982) At the Piano, 1950


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Augusto Giacometti | Il pioniere della pittura Astratta

Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) fu un importante pittore Svizzero legato al liberty ed al simbolismo.
E' considerato un pioniere dell’arte astratta.
A lui si devono, inoltre, alcune particolari realizzazioni artistiche nell’ambito della pittura su vetro e della pittura murale monumentale.


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Jean Metzinger | Seated Woman, 1919


Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 - 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter**, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote a theoretical work on Cubism.

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Odilon Redon | Mysterious Boat


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William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Idylle: famille antique, 1860


At the time that Bouguereau painted Idylle: famille antique he was a rising star on the Paris art scene. After studying with the esteemed French Academic master François Picot, Bouguereau gained admittance to the hallowed halls of Paris' École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1849, he exhibited for the first time in the Paris Salon and the following year won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome.
During his time in Italy, Bouguereau traveled extensively, studying the Renaissance masters** who inspired his early fascination with classical antiquity, as demonstrated by the present painting.

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Alfred Henry Maurer | The Rendezvous, 1904-05