Spring 2014 Catalog

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Spring 2014 Catalog

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F RO N T L I ST
3 Spirit Stones
The Ancient Art of the Scholar’s Rock
5 Gusto
The Very Best of Italian Food and Cuisine
7 Six Spices
A Simple Concept of Indian Cooking
second edition
9 The White House
Its Historic Furnishings and First Families 11 Volume the First by Jane Austen
In Her Own Hand
A b b e v ill e K i d s
13 World Soccer Legends
FC Barcelona ∙ England ∙ Manchester United
Real Madrid ∙ U.S. Men's Team
Messi ∙ Ronaldo ∙ Zlatan
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TINY FOLIOS™
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Franz Kline
18 Treasures of the Prado
19 Treasures of the Uffizi
2 4 R ECE N T L Y R E L E A S ED
35 A BBEV I L L E D I G I T A L B O O K S
40 D I S T R I B U T I O N
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Spirit Stones
The Ancient Art of the Scholar’s Rock
Photographs by Jonathan M. Singer
Text by Kemin Hu and Thomas S. Elias
Renowned photographer Jonathan M. Singer presents striking
black-and-white images of Chinese ornamental rocks from one
of the world’s foremost collections.
Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars’ rocks, or gongshi, have been
prized by Chinese intellectuals since the Tang dynasty, and are now sought
after by Western collectors as well. They are a natural subject for the photographer Jonathan M. Singer, most recently acclaimed for his images of those
other remarkable hybrids of art and nature, Japanese bonsai.
Here Singer turns his lens on some 150 fine stones, ancient and modern,
from the world-class collection of Kemin Hu, a recognized authority on this
art form.
Hu and Thomas S. Elias contribute essays on the history and aesthetics of
scholars’ rocks, explaining the traditional terms of stone appreciation, such as
shou (thinness), zhou (wrinkles), lou (channels), and tou (openness). These
essays highlight the philosophical differences in stone appreciation between
the West and the East. Elias’ essay, like the Western approach to stone appreciation, highlights the scientific aspect of the stones, such as their geological
structure and formation. Hu’s essay emphasizes the spiritual aspects of the
stones in keeping with the Eastern approach.
Hu provides a narrative caption for each stone, describing its history and
characteristics with a lyrical quality that represents the stones as “the vital
essence and energy of the heavens and the earth—representing a world in
miniature.”
300 duotones
216 pages ∙ 12 × 15"
Cloth with slipcase ∙ $95.00
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别有洞天
Beyond the Cave Heaven
s t o n e t y p e: Ying stone, 英石 (Ying shi)
d i m e n s i o n s: 15¾ × 16 × 8 in. (40 × 41 × 20 cm)
o r i g i n : Yingde County, Guangdong Province
This is a naturally formed Ying stone. Richly wrinkled, it looks like a dongtian,
one of the cave heavens (often called grotto heavens) held sacred by Taoists
in China. A dongtian is a cave or hollow considered to be the heavenly abode
of immortals; this stone’s name, “Beyond the Cave Heaven” (bieyou dongtian),
is a Chinese idiom meaning that behind this abode is another world of great
natural beauty.
For his botanical photography, Jonathan M. Singer has been honored
with the Hasselblad Laureate Award and the Carl Linnaeus Silver Medal of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Kemin Hu is the leading expert on scholars’ stones and the author of several
books on the subject, including Modern Chinese Scholars’ Rocks, The Spirit of
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Gongshi, and The Romance of Scholars’ Stones.
碧玉天眼
Thomas
S. Jade
Elias is chairman of the Viewing Stone Association of North
Heavenly Eye on Green
America
and
a
former director of the U.S. National Arboretum. He is the
stone type: Caitao stone, 彩陶石 (Caitao shi)
dimensions
: 11½ ×or
10¼ editor
× 5½ in. (29of
× 26seven
× 14 cm) books including Chrysanthemum Stones.
author
origin : Heshan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Caitao stone is one of two kinds of stone produced in the Hongshui River
(or Red River) in the Guangxi region. The long-term association with ﬂowing
water has given the Red River stones from the area of Heshan a very soft layer
of color on the surface, as if they have been enameled, hence the name Caitao
shi, which can be translated as “colored pottery stone.” The green coloring on
this stone is darker toward the top and lighter at the bottom. The bulge on the
top of the stone is particularly noteworthy: It is in the shape of an eye, which
one can imagine as the “eye of heaven.”
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Gusto
The Very Best of Italian Food and Cuisine
Edited by Armando Minuz
Introductions by Umberto Galimberti and Giovanni Ballarini
The first encyclopedia of Italian cuisine. Illustrated with 4,000
stunning photographs and featuring more than 140 recipes.
Italian cooking now has a book worthy of its place at the head of the
culinary table. A gorgeous and comprehensive reference guide and
cookbook dedicated to Italian food and drink, Gusto beautifully illustrates
the ingredients and cooking methods used in kitchens from Parma to
Tuscany and beyond. The delicious photos represent a breathtaking array
of the components that make up Italian dishes from the classic to the
unfamiliar.
Imagine every cut of beef, all varieties of mushrooms, fourteen different
species of crustacean, twelve kinds of prosciutto, all vividly displayed and
carefully explained in ravishing detail. Each chapter—on pasta, rice, fish,
meat, bread (and yes, pizza), cheese, salami, vegetables, fruit and nuts, herbs
and condiments, desserts, cookies and pastry, gelato, chocolate, coffee, and,
of course, wine—describes essential ingredients and food preparation
methods as well as presenting superb recipes from Italian kitchens.
Equally at home on the coffee table or the countertop, Gusto will
surprise the sophisticated connoisseur and amaze the lover of all things Italian.
Over 4,000 full-color illustrations
368 pages ∙ 11 × 14½"
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Armando Minuz has written a series of cookbooks for Food Editore,
Parma, Italy, on pasta, pizza and bread, appetizers, and vegetarian cooking.
Giovanni Ballarini is president of the Accademia Italiana della
Cucina in Milan and a professor at the University of Parma.
Umberto Galimberti, emeritus professor of cultural anthropology
at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, has authored numerous books and
publications as well as contributed to II Sole 24 Ore and La Repubblica.
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Six Spices
A Simple Concept of Indian Cooking
By Neeta Saluja
The art of Indian cuisine at your fingertips.
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Neeta Saluja simplifies Indian cooking with a unique approach to its
preparation. She focuses on the fundamentals—the special ingredients
and techniques every cook can use to create fragrant, delicious, and wellbalanced dishes.
Six Spices demystifies the exotic and complex flavors of Indian cuisine by
explaining the characteristics of its essential ingredients—hot chili powder,
aromatic coriander, sweet cumin, roasted nutty mustard seeds, bold
asafetida, and hearty turmeric. But here is the twist: the book also reveals
the methods used to incorporate them into exquisite, authentic recipes.
Keeping clarity and simplicity in mind, Saluja has created recipes easy
enough for beginners, yet inspirational enough to encourage inventiveness
in the more seasoned cook.
Readers will discover that seasoning with chounk is one of the basic
techniques used to enhance the flavor of beans and legumes. A dish of red
lentils will become memorable when infused with aromatic seasoning of
hot ghee, fresh herbs, and spices; and cooking with masala, or curry paste,
can turn a humble dish into the essence of Indian cuisine.
Saluja has taken the fear out of approaching unfamiliar culinary fare.
Her recipe collection has been tasted and tested throughout her more than
twenty years of teaching and cooking Indian food.
Cookbook Selection, New York Times Book Review,
Summer Reading Issue
Neeta Saluja, born in Agra, India, home of the Taj Mahal, has been
teaching Indian cooking for more than two decades in the United States,
Australia, and Japan. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband.
50 color photos
192 pages ∙ 8⅜ × 9½"
Paper ∙ $19.95
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National print, radio, and TV publicity
“If you enjoy Indian cuisine you will appreciate
the straightforward approach and easy recipes.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Nicely illustrated and well formatted, this is a good
resource for those looking for an introduction to
authentic Indian cooking.”—Library Journal
“Culinary instructor Neeta Saluja makes the
subcontinent’s cuisine even more accessible with
her idiot-proof book Six Spices.” —The Onion
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$49.95
The White House
Its Historic Furnishings and First Families
By Betty C. Monkman
Principal Photography by Bruce White
Foreword by Michelle Obama and previous First Ladies
Introduction by Wendell Garrett
New edition features never-before-published photographs of
rooms decorated during the Obama and Bush presidencies.
Official Guide to the White House
Decorative Arts Collection
295 illustrations, 260 in full color
320 pages ∙ 9¾ × 12"
Cloth ∙ $49.95
I S B N 978-0-7892-1179-8
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“Splendid.” —The Washington Post
“Editor’s Choice. . . . This is a wonderfully
handsome, responsibly scholarly volume by the
building’s curator—a prize for anyone who loves
decorative arts or the tradition of the building itself.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“Well-written, beautifully photographed book.”
—Library Journal
“Documents how dramatically White House interiors
have evolved since 1800.” —Publishers Weekly
Ever since the White House was built more than 200 years ago, its décor has been of
great interest to visitors, historians, and anyone interested in our nation’s history
and how it was manifested in our country’s most famous residence. Influenced
not only by styles of the moment, the White House interiors are even more
affected by the sensibilities of its occupants, our presidents and their first families.
This updated edition features new photos and information from recent
renovations of the Green Room, Queens’ Bedroom, Family Dining Room,
Lincoln Bedroom and Lincoln Bed, Lincoln Sitting Room, and the Oval
Office. Also highlighted will be china from the Clinton and Bush administrations and a fire screen acquired during the Obama Administration.
Author Betty Monkman shares historical facts and anecdotes revealing
how the furnishings and artwork showcased in this book came to the White
House, sometimes under controversial circumstances. She describes how
Mary Todd Lincoln earned public criticism for indulging in excessive
shopping expeditions and expenditures in the early days of the Civil War.
Readers also learn how Jacqueline Kennedy took a vastly different approach
to changes in the president’s residence, by working to transform the White
House into a place where visitors could learn about the history of the country.
Betty C. Monkman served more than thirty years in the Office of
the Curator, The White House, retiring as Chief Curator in 2002. She is a
frequent contributor to White House History.
Formerly a staff photographer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bruce
White specializes in photographing art and architecture.
Published in conjunction with the White House Historical Association.
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Volume the First
by Jane Austen
$24.95
In Her Own Hand
Introduction by Kathryn Sutherland
Facsimile of teen-age Jane Austen's brilliant first manuscript is
now available.
296 pages ∙ 6¾ × 8½"
Hardcover ∙ $24.95
I S B N 978-0-7892-1172-9
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Volume the First, housed at the Bodleian Library of
Oxford University, England, includes the following
stories: Frederic & Elfrida, Jack & Alice, Edgar &
Emma, Henry & Eliza, Mr Harley, Sir William Mountague, Mr Clifford, The beautifull Caſsandra, Amelia Webster, The Visit, The Mystery, The three Sisters,
Detached peices, Ode to Pity
Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first “book” as a teenager, Volume the First. Taking its name
from the inscription on the cover, this brilliant little collection includes
the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from ages
twelve to eighteen. The volume was produced for the enjoyment of her family
and close friends—entertaining it was and is!
Now it is available for all of us to see.
As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with
great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular
stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and
characters. Kathryn Sutherland’s introduction places Austen’s earliest works in
context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which
this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.
The work of a young adult, Volume the First nevertheless reveals the development of the unmistakable voice and style that would mark her as one of the
most popular authors of all time. None of her six famous novels survives in
complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own a likeness of
Jane Austen’s work as originally written—in her own hand.
Jane Austen, perhaps best known as the author of Pride and Prejudice, is
one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. She lived all her life
in England and died at the age of forty-one, leaving a literary legacy hard to
match by any author before or since.
Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography & Textual Criticism,
University of Oxford. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From
Aeschylus to Bollywood and the editor of the Digital Edition of Jane Austen’s
Fiction Manuscripts.
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Abbeville Kids
The stories and stats of soccer’s hottest teams.
A colorful, informative, action-packed series for young
readers gives soccer fans the inside scoop on their favorite clubs.
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More than a Club
Details the history of the club from its beginnings in 1899 through present day;
lists league results along with biographies of current stars (including Messi and
Xavi) and profiles of the next generation of players; and highlights ten facts about
the team. This book is an official licensed product of FC Barcelona.
Abbeville Kids
FC Barcelona
England
The Three Lions
The team of Charlton, Lineker, and Beckham. The team of Terry, Gerrard, and
Rooney. When will the roaring Three Lions bring the World Cup home again?
Hardcover ∙ I S B N 978-0-7892-1160-6
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Manchester United
The Biggest and the Best
Tells the story of the famous team from Manchester; includes a biography of
coach Matt Busby (famous for the Busby Babes team); reveals ten fun facts about
the team; profiles stars Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney; and lists famous fans
around the world.
Real Madrid
The Most Successful Club in the World
Includes a history of the team’s nicknames; profiles Madrid’s championship-
winning teams; features biographies of important coaches like José Mourinho;
and profiles of current star players like Casillas, Alonso, and Ramos.
U.S. Men’s Team
New Stars on the Field
Hardcover ∙ I S B N 978-0-7892-1180-4
Tells the story of the U.S. Men’s National Team, from the formation of U.S. Foot
Ball Association one hundred years ago to the recent success of the Men’s Team.
The U.S. Men’s National Team has played in six consecutive World Cups and
qualified to join the most recent World Cup being played in Brazil in 2014.
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beat six rivals like Maradona.
After this stunner Argentina
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“next Maradona” – he had
obviously arrived. And chances
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Constant rivalry with Barcelona
When Cristiano Ronaldo joined Real he
started scoring more than he had ever done
with United. He played a great part in Real’s
success. During Ronaldo’s first two seasons
with Real the club gathered so many points
that at any other time it would have secured
victory in La Liga, Spain’s top league. But
the invincible Barcelona scored even higher
both seasons and Real had to settle for
second place. But in the season 2011-2012 no
club could touch Real, and Ronaldo scored
more goals than ever before. He scored for
example 7 hat-tricks!
Real’s starting XI in 2011-2012
usually looked like this:
Casillas
Marcelo
Özil – Alonso – Kaká
Higuaín
Cristiano Ronaldo
Benzema
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Matches CR7 against Barcelona
November 2010 – March 2013
La Liga
Copa del Rey
Super Cup
UEFA Champions L.
Sergio Ramos – Pepe
Arbeloa
Real Madrid is the most successful football club
in the world. After the 2011-2013 season Real had
won La Liga 32 times, Copa del Rey 18 times, and
the UEFA European Champions League 9 times.
The club’s arch rival, FC Barcelona, had won La
Liga 22 times, the Copa 25 times, and the UEFA
European Champions League 4 times.
The clubs have very different recruitment
policies; Barcelona places great stress on homegrown talent, raising it’s own players from an
early age. These boys become the key players
in the first team, such as Xavi, Messi, and Iniesta.
Real Madrid, on the other hand, prefers to buy
superstars from other clubs and build the team
around them – such as CRISTIANO RONALDO.
The midfielder Khedira and the attackers Di Maria and Callejón also
played a great deal. The coach
was the colourful Mourinho.
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Matches between Real Madrid and Barcelona
are called “El Clásico” and are usually very
exciting. To begin with Ronaldo didn’t do too
well against Barcelona. But on the 21st of April
2012 that changed. Ronaldo and his Real Madrid
teammates turned up at Camp Nou in Barcelona,
where Real hadn’t managed to win a match in 5
years. Ronaldo changed that when he scored the
winning goal for Real in the 73rd minute after a
great run and an assist from Özil. It was Ronaldo’s
finest hour. Not only did he secure a victory over
the arch rivals on their own home ground, but
he also ensured that Real would be crowned
Champions of Spain for the first time since 2008!
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Abbeville Kids
Messi
ProfilestheArgentineanstarofFCBarcelona,LionelMessi.Discusseshisearly
childhoodsuccessandhistrainingwiththeBarcelonajuniorteam,andfeaturesfun
factslikehisfavoritefoodsandhispetpeeves.
Ronaldo
Th
estoryofthe“ultimatefootballer,”CristianoRonaldo.Coversthestar’syouthin
Madeira,hisnicknames,andhisrecordwithManchesterUnited,andliststhemany
awardshehasreceived.
Zlatan
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AcompleteprofileofSwedishfootballstarZlatanibrahimović.includesinformation
abouthischildhood,arecordofhisfamousgoals,hissuccessesanddisappointments
withBarcelona,hisfamily,andadiscussionofhisfutureasalivinglegend.
Zlatan’s recently published biography has garnered international fame; it has
sold over 700,000 copies in Sweden alone and millions of copies throughout Europe.
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Zlatan was quick to assert ahimself with Ajax. The team
won the Dutch championship of 2001-2002 under the firm
control of coach Ronald Koeman. The Dutchman Van der Vaart
was the team’s highest goalscorer, followed by the Egyptian
Mido and then Zlatan.
During the next season, Ajax finished second after PSV
Eindhoven, but Zlatan couldn’t stop scoring. In his first
Championship League game, on September 17th 2002,
Zlatan achieved s a roaring success by scoring both
goals for Ajax in 2-1 victory over the French team Lyon.
Zlatan scored a total of 21 goals in 42 matches for Ajax,
or a goal in every other game on average.
In the 2003-2004 season, Zlatan again became Dutch
champion under the leadership of Koeman. The Swede
was Ajax’s top goalscorer.
Zlatan’s relationship with Van der Vaart, one of the
major players on the team, faced some serious troubles
at the start of the 2004-2005 season. They got into a
scuffle in an international match between Sweden and
Holland, and the Dutchman ended up injured. The rivalry
between these two key Ajax players led to Zlatan being
sold to Juventus late in August 2004. At that time, he had
for long time been under the watchful eye of most major
European teams.
Zlatan celebrates his
second goal against Lyon
in his Championship
League debut in
September 2002.
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Franz Kline
By Harry F. Gaugh
A classic study of the iconic American painter.
Franz Kline (1910–1962) was a leading figure among the Abstract
Expressionists: his energetic black strokes on a white field are as
recognizable as Jackson Pollock’s drips or Mark Rothko’s rectangles of
glowing color. Kline’s mature works of the 1950s display an astonishing
mastery, locking contending forces into architectonic configurations that
seem even larger than their actual size, which is considerable. According to
an oft-repeated story, Kline arrived at his signature style in a single moment
of inspiration, when he saw the individual strokes of one of his figurative
drawings blown up to an enormous size with an opaque projector.
The reality, of course, was somewhat more complex, as Harry F. Gaugh
reveals in this sensitively written account of Kline’s career. Drawing on
extensive interviews with Kline’s associates, Gaugh traces the artist’s
development through his early training as an illustrator in Boston and
London; his penniless years in Greenwich Village, turning out figurative
canvases for a few devoted patrons (and murals for barroom walls); and
the progressive experiments with abstraction that finally led to his famous
breakthrough. Gaugh also reminds us of the depth of Kline’s oeuvre; in
truth, the artist had never confined himself entirely to black and white,
and before his untimely death he had begun a series of vibrantly colored
canvases. The text is complemented by 170 illustrations, reproducing an
ample selection of Kline’s work, as well as notes on conservation and
technique, and a detailed chronology.
A model of art-historical writing, Franz Kline is, remarkably, still the only
available monograph on its subject. It belongs on the book shelf of everyone
with an interest in American painting.
192 pages ∙ 9 × 11"
Cloth ∙ $65.00
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“An exemplary study.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Sharp and informative.” —The New York Times
“Well researched . . . and generously illustrated.”
—Choice
Harry F. Gaugh, a historian of postwar American art, taught at
Skidmore College. The leading authority on Franz Kline, Gaugh curated the
landmark exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect. His other
books include the volume on Willem de Kooning in Abbeville’s Modern
Masters series.
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tiny folio™
Treasures of the Prado
By Felipe Vicente Garín Llombart
Spain’s greatest museum in your pocket . . .
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Las Meninas. The Nude Maja and The Clothed Maja. The Garden of Earthly
Delights. The Museo del Prado in Madrid, which grew out of the Spanish
royal collections, holds the masterpieces of Velázquez and Goya, and
many exceptional works by their illustrious countrymen. Yet it is equally
strong in the work of Bosch (especially Bosch!), Rubens, Titian, and other
Flemish and Italian painters. The Prado represents the Old Masters at
their most expressive and fantastic, so this book—which reproduces the
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Felipe Vicente Garín Llombart is former director of the Museo
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The Birth of Venus and the Primavera. The Doni Tondo. The Venus of
Urbino. The Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, one of Europe’s oldest public
museums, contains first-rate works by Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo,
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many foreign ones—think of the Portinari Altarpiece, the masterwork of
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Goddesses
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Treasures of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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