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"tombstone": "The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay, 1917. Henri Matisse (French, 1869\u20131954). Oil on canvas; framed: 58 x 75 x 7 cm (22 13/16 x 29 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 38.2 x 55.2 cm (15 1/16 x 21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lucia McCurdy McBride in memory of John Harris McBride II, 1972.225. \u00a9 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1972",
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"title": "Speed-Visions of an Accelerated Age",
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"title": "Cin\u00e9matisse",
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"title": "Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in Interwar France",
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"description": "Sold through Bernheim-Jeune to Adrien H\u00e9brard, 1917; Mrs. R. A. Workman, London (1924); (Kraushaar, 1929, sold to donor, Mrs. Malcolm McBride, in 1941)",
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"description": "Henri Matisse painted this unusual view of a road and the surrounding rural landscape in summer of 1917 while being chauffeured by his son Pierre toward an airport on the outskirts of Paris. Seized by the novel idea of depicting the road from inside the car, Matisse asked his son to pull over so he could begin painting. Although forced to keep the windows shut, and despite passing traffic rocking the old Renault back and forth, Matisse managed to create a novel view of life in the modern automobile age.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 249",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n269"
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \u201cAlex Katz\u2019s Impala.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 314\u2013326.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 324, fig. 16",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159954"
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"citation": "Krauss, Rosalind E. Willem De Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez La Femme. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.",
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