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Also Known As Cornelis Theodorus Marie van Dongen
Born January 26, 1877 • Netherlands
Died May 28, 1968 (aged 91) • Monte-Carlo • Monaco
Movement / Style Fauvism • Der Blaue Reiter • Die Brücke

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Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Henri Rousseau: Myself: Portrait-Landscape
Henri Rousseau
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Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
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Georges Rouault
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Maurice de Vlaminck
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André Derain
French painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
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Sir Matthew Smith
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Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
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
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Frans Hals: The Merry Toper
Frans Hals
Dutch 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
Oil painting by Jan van Eyck showing a man in dark clothing with a large, elaborate red turban, set against a dark background.
Jan van Eyck
Netherlandish painter

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