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Word: vermilions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1995-1995
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...announcing itself in his watercolor drawing of a Jewish bride in Tangier, whose costume, in all its fantastic profusion of embroidery, overlays and gold jewelry, is suggested in a few washes of pink, vermilion, blue and yellow. He developed it to full pitch in the oil paintings he did later in his Paris studio. It would lead to the packed density of pattern-on-pattern in Women of Algiers (1834) and receive its homages from both Matisse and Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Drinking the Color | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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