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Wendy Osgerby
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BIOGRAPHY

Wendy Osgerby is an artist, writer, and retired arts lecturer whose son is part of the London-based industrial design studio Barber & Osgerby. Her work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, where the work originally appeared.

Primary Contributions (7)
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, unfinished oil painting created by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in 1917–18, shortly before he died. Though in some ways, this work seems to be a relic from the perfumed decadence of Vienna’s fin-de-siècle, it also departs from most of Klimt’s work in noticeable ways. C Adam and Eve…
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Publications (1)
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die: Revised and Updated
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die: Revised and Updated (September 2011)
By Stephen Farthing
From Ancient Egyptian frescoes to the Renaissance masters, from French Impressionists to American Abstract Expressionists, this highly browsable guide embraces all cultures and every style of painting from 4,000 BC to the present. A visually arresting reference for art lovers and students, it provides a truly comprehensive worldwide gazeteer of paintings organized chronologically by date of completion. Each entry includes the history of the painting, information about the artist or artistic movement,...
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