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Bonnard/Matisse : letters between friends

by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Clair, Antoine Terrasse, Richard Howard

This volume collects the correspondence exchanged between two major twentieth-century artists from 1925 to 1946, documenting a forty-year friendship built on mutual respect and affection.

Accession 17275 ISBN 0810925338 Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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