impressionist

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He spent the better part of a decade in the impressionist and modern-art department before moving to work under Tobias Meyer, then Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art and principal auctioneer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

The former contains a painting of the local windmills by French impressionist Claude Monet, who visited in 1871.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2025

Nahmad is the son of a billionaire art dealer; his family has one of the world’s largest collections of impressionist and modernist art.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

Cousins has English impressionist Alistair McGowan voicing Hitchcock, as he guides viewers through various case studies to address these themes.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

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