Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

by Aimee Brown Price

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An artist of pivotal importance to the generation of post-Impressionists from Seurat and Gauguin to Matisse and Picasso, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898) played a crucial role in the history of late-19th-century French art and the development of modernism. He was an artist of great range, originality, and idiosyncratic invention who executed mural complexes, compelling easel paintings, and numerous works on paper.

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Exhibition catalogue. Please don't combine with the monograph.

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Art & Design, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
759.4Arts & recreationPaintingHistory, geographic treatment, biographyFrance and Monaco
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ND553 .P9 .P75Fine ArtsPaintingPaintingHistory
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