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Tag: Art
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Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Artist’s Daughter and Inspiration, Dies at 87
As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his works.
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How Henri Matisse (and I) Got a ‘Beautiful Body’
The new limitations of the artist’s body became an opportunity for renewal. With paint, scissors and paper, he constructed a new self.
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The Joy of Illustration
For a quarter of a century — holidays included — Bill Sokol’s drawings injected a note of whimsy into the stolid New York Times.