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Theodore Franklin Reff (born 1930)
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Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
. Reff is an expert on French art of the nineteenth century, and in particular
Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...
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Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...
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Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
. In 1987 Reff was named , an order of merit awarded by the French government. In 2010, at the French Consulate in New York, Reff was presented with the Insignia of , an order of merit awarded by the French government.


Selected publications

*''Cézanne Watercolors'' (editor and co-author). New York: M. Knoedler and Co., 1963. *''Manet: Olympia''. London: Allen Lane, 1976. *''The Notebooks of Edgar Degas: A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections.'' 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. . 2nd ed., revised, New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. *
Degas: The Artist's Mind
'. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. ''.'' 2nd ed., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. *''Cézanne: The Late Work'' (co-edited with William Rubin and John Rewald), New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976. *''Manet and Modern Paris: One Hundred Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Photographs by Manet and His Contemporaries.'' Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. *''Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement'' (co-authored with Philippe Brame), New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. (v. 5) *''Paul Cézanne; Two Sketchbooks'' (co-authored with Innis Howe Shoemaker), Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989 *Manet's ''Incident in a Bullfight'', New York: The Council of the Frick Collection, 2005 *''The Letters of Edgar Degas''. 3 vols. New York: Wildenstein Plattner Institute, 2020


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