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        "tombstone": "The Nymphs, 1890. \u00c9mile Bernard (French, 1868\u20131941). Woodcut, hand-colored with watercolor; sheet: 59.1 x 47.8 cm (23 1/4 x 18 13/16 in.); image: 47.5 x 35 cm (18 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the museum's one-hundredth anniversary, 2015.152",
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        "title": "The Nymphs",
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                "inscription": "lower right, in graphite: a Paul Gachet / Emile Bernard / 1889",
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                    "id": 306886,
                    "title": "Recent Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).",
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        "description": "Before he had reached age 20, the precocious Bernard worked alongside Paul Gauguin and engaged in a lively correspondence with Vincent van Gogh. Toward the end of 1889, Van Gogh observed a shift in the young artist\u2019s work and noted in a letter to his sister, \u201cBernard is trying to do elegant, modern figures in the manner of ancient Greek and Egyptian art.\u201d The elongated, seemingly weightless forms in <em>The Nymphs </em>reflect Bernard\u2019s stylistic evolution. This vividly hand-colored woodcut is one of only three known impressions of this print.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 68",
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                "citation": "Lemonedes, Heather. \u201cAcquisitions 2015.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 18-19.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 18; Mentioned: p. 19, 22",
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