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Born January 8, 1906 • Moscow • Russia
Died October 13, 1969 (aged 63) • Paris • France
Movement / Style abstract art
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
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 de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Vuillard, Édouard: Under the Trees
Édouard Vuillard
French artist
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
French painter
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
French painter
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
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Jean Dubuffet
French artist
Self-portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas, 1795; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, France.
Louis-Léopold Boilly
French painter
Stormy Landscape, oil on panel by Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1872; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 47.6 × 60.01 cm.
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña
French painter
The Battle of the Pyramids
Louis-François, Baron Lejeune
French general and lithographer
Victor Vasarely, c. 1978.
Victor Vasarely
Hungarian-born French painter
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Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
Russian artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist

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