“One morning one of us had run out of black; and that was the birth of Impressionism.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Klaus Honnef, ‎Ingo F. Walther, ‎Karl Ruhrberg (1998) Art of the 20th Century: Painting. p. 7
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