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Robert
[roh-ber] /roʊˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1885–1941, French painter.
Historical Examples
The Maker of Opportunities George Gibbs
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Richard Muther
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) Charles Morris
An Englishman in Paris Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
The Fourth Estate, vol.1 Armando Palacio Valds
The Maker of Opportunities George Gibbs
My Double Life Sarah Bernhardt
Builders of United Italy Rupert Sargent Holland
The Maker of Opportunities George Gibbs
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 George Saintsbury
noun
Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
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