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in 1897, the sale of bibliophile Baron Jérôme Pichon’s collection began. Lasting 2 weeks, it brought in 576,945 Francs.

On this first day, paintings by the likes of and were sold.

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2021-03-30

My favorite painting currently. Painted in 1937 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. A year later the Nazi party confiscated pretty much all his work and as a result he committed suicide. To me, this artist was revolutionary and im extremely thankful for his vision.

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2021-03-29

This Caldecott-winner said, “disgracefully incompetent” book reviewers would either:

• lavish “wild acclaim on a piece of artistic trash”

or

• destroy an illustrator’s career

This is our post on Trina Schart Hyman.
https://t.co/TbJaJVb5WO

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2021-03-29

In the late 1960’s, this artist submitted art of a blue bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

Her art launched a decades-long phenomenon.

Here is our post on Denise Holly Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie. https://t.co/8gBSyVFOIQ

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2021-03-24

New style application experiments, who would be up for a Football Fauvism book or abstract as campaign?

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2021-03-22

At 9, this artist was a refugee.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her last children’s book.

This is our post on Judith Kerr. https://t.co/HwEE4kELqy

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2021-03-22

Today, selling 100,000 copies of a children’s book is rare.

This artist did it… with her first book… while battling misogyny… 140 years ago.

Here is our post on Kate Greenaway. https://t.co/tuJXrp1C9w

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2021-03-20

A few of the pieces that started it all for me. 4K, Gravity Well, Transcendence, and Mechanical Warfare. 1999 -2000.

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2021-03-20


"Art is free but you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

Mirka Mora (1928–2018) in

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2021-03-19

the largest art heist in American history took place in 1990.

13 works valued at $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. None have been recovered, and the frames still hang empty...

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2021-03-18