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- Pierre Puvis de
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Examples
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The whole second half of the show was devoted to the lightweight Nabis with the occasional Puvis De Chavannes garbage (say that last word with a French accent as you click that link).
Mat Gleason: Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists Mat Gleason 2010
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The whole second half of the show was devoted to the lightweight Nabis with the occasional Puvis De Chavannes garbage (say that last word with a French accent as you click that link).
Mat Gleason: Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists Mat Gleason 2010
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"This place became a paradise and gives us hope for the whole country," said MPP's director Chavannes Jean Baptiste, "there was not one tree around when we started."
Salena Tramel: Haitian Movements Branch Out Salena Tramel 2011
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Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, of Via Campesina, told the Americas Program, "The situation is really serious, because in Haiti we have six months of drought a year, and when there isn't drought, there are floods, so agricultural production is declining."
Laura Carlsen: Fiddling on Climate Laura Carlsen 2011
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"This place became a paradise and gives us hope for the whole country," said MPP's director Chavannes Jean Baptiste, "there was not one tree around when we started."
Salena Tramel: Haitian Movements Branch Out Salena Tramel 2011
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Some, including Charles Ricketts, thought Pierre Puvis de Chavannes the greatest painter of the late nineteenth century.
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Some, including Charles Ricketts, thought Pierre Puvis de Chavannes the greatest painter of the late nineteenth century.
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I thought the show was good, not great, but absolutely delighted to re discover the Nabis painters, and Vuillard in particular, but also to discover Puvis de Chavannes who influenced a lot of the artists in the exhibition.
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Some, including Charles Ricketts, thought Pierre Puvis de Chavannes the greatest painter of the late nineteenth century.
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Works by older artists whose example reverberated with Degas provide a context: paintings by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco Goya and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, along with Japanese prints and a sampling of the efforts of the artist's friends and near-contemporaries, including Auguste Rodin, Pierre Renoir, Mary Cassatt and Gustave Caillebotte.
Stolen Moments and Persistent Poses Karen Wilkin 2011
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