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European Post-Impressionism

Emile Bernard (French, 1868–1941), Still Life with Orange, oil on board, mounted on canvas, purchase in honor of Margaret Boyd Perdue, longtime friend and tireless supporter of the High Museum, 2000.209.

In the wake of the Impressionists’ revolt against academic art, new and radical styles of painting flourished in France at the end of the 1800s. The High owns beautiful, groundbreaking Post-Impressionist paintings by Édouard Vuillard, Émile Bernard, Maximilien Luce, and others.