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Impressionism

Exceptionally early English-made ebony bracket clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, which holds the house record for a clock at Bonhams.

Time Machines

Antique tall case clocks, once the highest of the high-tech, still keep both time and their value.

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Art Spiegelman, Lead Pipe Sunday no. 2 (detail), 1997, lithograph.

Plastic Arts

Graphic Novel pioneer Art Spiegelman gets a career-spanning show at the Jewish Museum.

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Eugène Delacroix, The Last Words of Marcus Aurelius, oil on canvas.

A Delacroix in California

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents a monographic show of the Romantic French master, centering on a recently attributed painting.

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René Magritte, La trahison des images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) (The Treachery of Images [This is Not a Pipe]), 1929, oil on canvas.

Virtual Reality

René Magritte—part magician, part humorist, part realist—is as modern as he’s ever been.

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Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665, oil on canvas.

The First Snapshot

Dutch masters visit New York, giving a glimpse at the birth of modern artistic vision.

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Esteban Vicente, Mota, 1968, collage and paper on board

Urban Pastoral

In his fluid, luminous paintings and collages, Esteban Vicente conjured an aesthetic utopia.

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Anonymous photograph of Franz von Stuck, 1896.

Franz von Stuck: Sorcery and Sanctity

The dark, decadent art of Franz von Stuck is ushered into the light for its first American retrospective.

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James Brooks, Sull, 1961, oil on canvas, 78 x 92 inches.

The Unruffled Irascible

James Brooks saw his Abstract Expressionist painting as an extension of, rather than a break with, artistic tradition.

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a Chinese Imperial spinach-green jade water buffalo, with a gilt bronze stand, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–95), 20.8 cm.;

Romancing the Stone

Ranging from emerald green to milky white, jade carvings work their magic on collectors both Western and Chinese.

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