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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
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Born January 19, 1865 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died December 5, 1911 (aged 46) • Moscow • Russia
Movement / Style Art Nouveau • Impressionism • Peredvizhniki

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Serov, Valentin: Portrait of the Composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
Russian artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Édouard Manet: Self-Portrait
Édouard Manet
French painter
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Self-Portrait with the Image of Death, oil on canvas by Lovis Corinth, 1896; in the Stadtische Galerie in Lembachhaus, Munich, Germany.
Lovis Corinth
German painter
Zorn, Anders: Dagmar
Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and etcher
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
Russian artist
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
Russian artist
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov
Russian artist
Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky
Ukrainian-Russian painter
Ivan Albertovich Puni
Russian artist
Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky
Russian artist
Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
Russian painter
Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist
Isaak Ilyich Levitan
Russian painter
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist

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