impressionist
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Two paintings by impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen from a museum in southern France and later discovered hidden behind a wall, have sustained slight damage, prosecutors said on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lilly Cassirer Neubauer escaped Germany at the dawn of World War II by relinquishing to a Nazi art broker the exquisite impressionist masterpiece “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain,” by Camille Pissarro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Bryan Masson, the mayor of the southern town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, said the duo appeared "well equipped and well informed" about the museum housing works by French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The thieves dropped two paintings in their escape, said Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the French Riviera town where the French impressionist spent his final years and that now houses the museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
From the employee side of the window, the outside world looked fluid, all the people on the other side wavy, like an impressionist watercolor.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The fluid brushstrokes made Hals a major influence of later artists like Vincent van Gogh and impressionists like Édouard Manet.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
“All the impressionists even had classes with each other.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
It’s more evidence that Johnson is one of sharpest impressionists in comedy today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Some were send-ups of well-known figures, voiced by impressionists or comedians.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2020
The work of the two great painters deals almost entirely with expression, that of the impressionists with colour harmonies.
From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett
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