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Great artists, such as Puvis de Chavannes and John Sargent, have helped to decorate the Boston Library.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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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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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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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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Some, including Charles Ricketts, thought Pierre Puvis de Chavannes the greatest painter of the late nineteenth century.
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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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Some, including Charles Ricketts, thought Pierre Puvis de Chavannes the greatest painter of the late nineteenth century.
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You avoid detail and a painted perspective that would make a hole in your wall—at least you do if you are Puvis de Chavannes.185 Now the art of the stage has three things which the easel painting has not.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98), French decorative painter, best known for his murals, which WBY praised in 1911 (UP2 398-99), 1916 (E&I 236), and 1938 (LE 249).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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