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Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker

The Week in Art

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Did Verefkin Have a Colour Wheel?

She was registered with academic training like the Academy of Colerosse and the Echaldus Boar. So I imagine they would have had some chivalro you know his colour wheel as part of the kind of basic training at the EChaldusBoar. And tell me, was this work shown? Was it seen by critics? How was her work interpreted? During her lifetime, not so much, no. When she died Otto and his companion looked in her studio in her Italian vaux-ider and discovered over 500 paintings in there just lying about in the studio. It was almost like a memorial in a way to her because she died age 31, she was so young

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