Puvis de Chavannes
Americannoun
noun
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She also appears in works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Renoir, who used her in two of his better paintings, “Dance at Bougival” and “Dance in the City.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
The Nabi painters and printmakers were influenced by the flattened forms and archaic aura of the neoclassical muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by Paul Gauguin.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
The exhibition “Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Works on Paper and Paintings” at Michael Werner Gallery in Manhattan is a major event, or at least a major rarity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
But, however much Gorey owes to the Surrealists, I see in him, equally, their less fun-loving predecessors, the Symbolist poets and painters of the late nineteenth century: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Khnopff, Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
A sanguine of Puvis de Chavannes brought 2,050 francs, and 4,700 francs was paid for a Cézanne picture.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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