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Auguste Rodin The Thinker 1880 Bronze 68.6 x 89.4 x 50.8 cm  |
Finest Works of World Art
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Auguste Rodin The Thinker 1880 Bronze 68.6 x 89.4 x 50.8 cm |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Luncheon of the Boating Party 1881 Oil on canvas 129.5 x 172.7 cm (51 x 68 in.) The Phillips Collection, Washington |
Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884-86 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago Seurat's Grande Jatte is one of those rare works of art that stand alone; its transcendence is instinctively recognized by everyone. What makes this transcendence so mysterious is that the theme of the work is not some profound emotion or momentous event, but the most banal of workaday scenes: |
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Vincent VAN GOGH The Starry Night 1889 Oil on canvas 29 x 36 1/4 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
'The Starry Night' was not Van Gogh's first depiction of a night sky. In Arles,
he had been proud of his painting of the stars and the reflection of the lights
of the town in the River Rhône, one of the first results of a plan intimated to
Emile Bernard in April 1888. He wanted to paint a starry night as an example of
working from the imagination, which could add to the value of a painting
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dvard Munch The Scream 1893 Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard 91 x 73.5 cm National Gallery, Oslo  |