The second-largest art museum in the country hangs masterpieces aplenty, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces.

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Marie-Therese was the focus of several portraits by the post-impressionist, including the 1932 work La Reve (The Dream).

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His passion for painting began in May 1922, when the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Savile Row, London, mounted a loan exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings entitled The French School of the Last Hundred Years.

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Take, for example, the wealthy industrialist Samuel Courtauld, scion of the Courtauld textile empire, whose collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings assembled during the 1920s and 30s helped permanently establish their importance in the post-war period.

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Looked at in this way, a closer examination of Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art this week shows that things did not go quite as well as the post-sale press release let on.

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