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December 2005

A fresh look at Van Gogh

by Karen Wilkin

On Vincent van Gogh’s drawings at the Met.

December 1994

Redon: the subjective world

by Deborah Rosenthal

On “Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840–1916” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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June 1985

Matisse

by Jed Perl

On Pierre Schneider’s book Matisse.

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