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1) Monet's cat
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"Artist Claude Monet's porcelain sculpture of a cat, named Chika, springs to life and runs through all of Monet's most famous paintings"--
7) Claude Monet
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Provides an overview of the life, works, and legacy of French artist Claude Monet.
10) Paul Gauguin
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Briefly describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist known for his paintings of the South Pacific.
13) Cézanne's parrot
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Paul Cézanne longs to be a great painter, but even with the advice of his friends Monet and Pissarro, no one, not even his parrot, is impressed with his work.
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"Out of the fascinating story of "the two poles of art" of the time, Ernest Meissonier and Édouard Manet, and illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary art movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation"--Container.
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"This is the colorful memoir of the brilliant, eccentric Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill (1865-1951), who championed many of the emerging masters of modern art in the first part of the twentieth century. In this, she was radical and pioneering. She made the first sales in Paris for Picasso and Matisse, and she gave Modigliani the only solo show in his lifetime. Weill also promoted the work of women artists, and her salty memoir (originally published...