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Born January 5, 1900 • Paris • France
Died January 15, 1955 (aged 55) • Waterbury • Connecticut
Notable Works “Shadow Country”
Movement / Style Surrealism
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
Alfred Stieglitz: photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
American painter
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
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
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
Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait
Camille Pissarro
French artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Henri Rousseau: Myself: Portrait-Landscape
Henri Rousseau
French painter
Camille Corot: Portrait de l'artiste, assis près d'un chevalet
Camille Corot
French painter
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
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Albert Gleizes
French painter and writer
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
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Grafton Tyler Brown
American artist

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