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Title: Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Hugo Reisinger
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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TE BY H. CARO DELVAILLE 5) fO H. Caro Delvaille French: Contemporary72—JEUNE FEMME A LA TOILETTE Height, 29 inches; width, 24 inches Seated on a soft-cushioned stool at her dressing table,before an oval mirror, a young woman is putting thelast touches to her coiffure, binding her dark hair witha deep-emerald ribbon. Her back is toward the spec-tator, with figure turned toward the left, while herhead is turned to the right to look into the mirror,both hands being raised to the carefully dressed hair.She is nude, a single filmy white dressing garment dan-gling from one arm and clinging lightly about hercrossed limbs. The wall of the room is papered inblue, green and pearl-white, and on the dresser is avase of flowers, and a jewel box from which a coralnecklace projects. A luminous atmosphere blends themanifold elusive variations in the flesh tones with thesoftened colors of the surroundings. Signed at the lower right, H. Caro Delvaille, 1912.Purchased from Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 1913.
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No. 73ETRETAT: SUNSET BY CLAUDE MONET 1 Claude Monet French: 1840—\j(j 73_ETRETAT: SUNSET Height, 24 inches; length, 31% inches Boldly from the left projects a huge ridge of darkbluish-gray rock, jutting into the sea in the middledistance, its back high against the clouds. Toward itsseaward end, near the center of the picture, the waveshave hewn a passage through it, the aperture a tall andnarrow irregular arch, from a buttress of which on itsouter side a monolithic pinnacle raises its point heaven-ward. Far off the sun is setting, a hot, vermilion orb,in dark banks of summer haze and melting strata ofhorizon clouds, its light lending to the broken watersvarying hues of the hour. The upper sky, above thesunset haze, is shot with patches of fleeting, wind-driven clouds, yellowish-gray and white. Signed at the lower left, Claude Monet, 83.From the William H. Fuller Collection, New York, 1903.

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