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Also Known As Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan
Born March 7, 1872 • Amersfoort • Netherlands
Died February 1, 1944 (aged 71) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Cubism • Neoplasticism • abstract art • Abstraction-Création • De Stijl

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Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
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American painter
Pablo Picasso
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Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
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French artist
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
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
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Albert Gleizes
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Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
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Chinese painter
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Jean Arp
Jean Arp
French artist
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Sir Matthew Smith
English painter

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