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Also Known As Satake Heizo
Born 1504 • Hitachi • Japan
Died c.1589 • Japan
Movement / Style suiboku-ga

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Japanese artist
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Kanō Motonobu
Japanese painter
Tanomura Chikuden
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Unkoku Tōgan
Japanese painter
Taikō Josetsu
Japanese painter
Soga Chokuan
Japanese painter
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Claude Monet: Self-portrait in a Beret
Claude Monet
French painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan
Armenian painter
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Morandi, Giorgio: Still Life
Giorgio Morandi
Italian artist

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