Rather, from the beginning, he struck out in a direction close to that of the Post-Impressionists and the Nabis.

相反，倒是从一开始，他就朝接近于后期印象派与纳比派的方向努力。

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While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century.

WSJ: Fluid, Evanescent Images | John Singer Sargent Watercolors | Brooklyn Museum | By Tom L. Freudenheim

Big names from the 1960s, like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol typically on show at Basle joined the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists as the most expensive art that money can buy.

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By the 1930s this had secured a dazzling collection of paintings, notably of impressionists and post-impressionists, though today it also has excellent American galleries, as well as good Asian and Middle Eastern artefacts.

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