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Coincides with the exhibition of the same title to be held at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (May 24 - September 8, 2019), and at the National Gallery in London (October 7, 2019 - January 26, 2020)

About the Author

Cornelia Homburg is curator of the Washington University Gallery of Art and visiting curator at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). Christopher Riopelle is the curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery in London. Elizabeth Childs is the director of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Washington in St Louis. She specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European modernism. Line Clausen Pedersen is the curator of the modern art collection at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek (Copenhagen). Dario Gamboni is Professor of Art History at the University of Geneva. His publications include Paul Gauguin at the Mysterious Centre of Thought. Linda Goddard is Senior Lecturer in Art History at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Her research centres on artists' writings, word and image studies, the visual and literary cultures of travel and colonialism, and eighteenth- to twentieth-century art and literature. Claire Guitton teaches at the École du Louvre and is Cornelia Homburg's research assistant. Alastair Wright is Associate Professor in the History of Art at St. John's College, Oxford. His research concentrates on European modernism.