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Facts

Born July 28, 1874 • Montevideo • Uruguay
Died August 8, 1949 (aged 75) • Montevideo • Uruguay
Founder Taller Torres García
Notable Works “Cosmic Monument”
Movement / Style Constructivism
Subjects Of Study Impressionism • Post-Impressionism • pre-Columbian civilizations
Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Painting by Claude Monet, Self-portrait in Beret, 1886, showing Monet with a full beard, dark beret, and coat against a light, textured background.
Claude Monet
French painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait
Camille Pissarro
French artist
Self-portrait painting by Paul Gauguin showing the artist with a mustache, yellow halo, and stylized plants against a vivid orange background with green and red fruit.
Paul Gauguin
French painter
Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.
Édouard Manet
French painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Portrait of French artist Georges Seurat with curly hair, full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side.
Georges Seurat
French painter
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
Russian artist
Eileen Agar
Eileen Agar
British artist
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
American painter
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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
Russian artist
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Russian artist
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French author
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Armando Reverón
Venezuelan painter

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