"Madame De Pompadour" 1954 MITFORD, Nancy Ian Fleming

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from his early Dutch landscapes at the turn of the century to the dazzlingly rhythmic compositions he painted in New York at the end of his life

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colloquially referred to as "Farmer Higgs"

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