impressionist

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In July 2006, Manhattan prosecutors charged Doyle with the theft of a bronze sculpture of a nude dancer by French impressionist Edgar Degas valued at $600,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

It’s packed with ideas from all over the American songbook — Aaron Copland and western folk, run through with Wilson’s own cracked impressionist view of life on the rails.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

The impressionist wears a bespoke hairpiece created by wig designers, which is regularly re-styled by a hairdresser.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2024

Nahmad is the son of a billionaire art dealer; his family has one of the world’s largest collections of impressionist and modernist art.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

Before long, everyone in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg— the men out there scouring the continent for hidden libraries, concealed prayer scrolls, closeted impressionist paintings—will be handed rifles and sent into the fire.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr