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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Christopher Wood left England in 1921 and spent almost the whole of his short artistic career in France. There he received his training as a painter through a brief attendance at the Parisian art schools, but more importantly through visiting the studios and assimilating the advice of the leading contemporary artists — Picasso and Jean Cocteau. This is one of two known paintings of jockeys by Wood. Undated, it has previously been assigned the date of 1923. Its stylistic sophistication and as...

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circa 1922
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Claude Flight
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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/44156
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Cityscapes / Streets / Buses / City of London (United Kingdom) / colored ink / rice paper / prints / linocuts / works on paper / linoleum-block printing / Modernist / British / London / Sir Rex Nan Kivell

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