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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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Tish, misty or foggy day the central part ofLondons famous and busy bridge is seen, four of thearches being revealed, with Thames barges under ornear them. The roadway is crowded with traffic, busesand other vehicles, and the pedestrians, all in theceaseless motion of collective London life. In the back-ground tall smoking chimneys rise dimly in the mist,whose grayish and violet tones are mingled with a pale,purplish rose. The moving green water below ispatched with the lights of these soft atmospheric tones,while the traffic on the bridge, generally of sombrehue, is relieved in its long line by notes of a quiet red.The whole is in the characteristic atmosphere of a grayLondon day, with everything—line and color—softenedand indefinite. Signed at the lower right, Claude Moxet, 1904.Purchased from Messrs. Durand-Ruel § Sons, New York, 1907.
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No. 78THE BATHER BY ANDERS LEONHARD ZORN ^(T^ Anders Leonhard Zorn Swedish : 1860—78—THE BATHER Height, 39 inches; width, 27 inches Deep blue water ruffled in a gentle breeze comes intoview from the right, in a little cove formed by smooth,slanting, gray rocks, which curve around from the back-ground to the left foreground. Their weather-wornand surf-splashed sides reflect various soft colors, andoverhanging their tops, across the background, is thickgreen herbage or low-bending shrubbery. In the fore-ground a mature young woman with 3ellow-golden haircreeping cautiously down the rocks, pauses at the brinkand looks into the water, her last garment, a whiteskirt, grasped in one hand and partly hiding her limbs.Her figure is turned three-quarters from the observer,toward the right, and her rosy face is almost in profile.The sunlight, slanting low from the right, gleams fromoutstanding surfaces of her white flesh, and her backis relatively in shadow. Coming toward her around aprotrud

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