oeuvre
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The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To stoke more curiosity in his oeuvre, the sisters have organized the biggest show of Marden’s art in two decades at New York’s Gagosian Gallery, through mid-December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Is there any work in his already extensive oeuvre that he would hold above the others?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Then again, unflinching and sometimes self-important intellectualism is a major aspect of Schoenbrun’s whole oeuvre.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Dr. Sussman was also an amateur photographer, and he captured some portraits of Bobby that worked their way into the Fischer oeuvre years later.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Always an industrious worker, his oeuvres ranged from stage set design to photography and printmaking.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The two centuries-old museum said in a statement it had set up a research team to study the 25 oeuvres and determine if there are other works that were also confiscated.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022
Subsequent Rembrandt years — 1956 and 1969 — have concentrated on bringing together masterpieces by Rembrandt and his pupils so as to further delineate their individual oeuvres.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2019
And Audiard’s texts exist as islands unto themselves, devoid of the unifying aesthetic found in the oeuvres of, say, Wes Anderson or Spike Lee.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2018
In one room a number of ladies—in almost all of these oeuvres women give their services, remaining all day or a part of every day—were doing nothing but rolling cigarettes.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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