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Historian and art critic, Stéphane Guégan is scientific advisor to the presidency of the Musée d'Orsay. He is the author of several works on painting and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, including numerous monographs devoted to Bonnard, Caillebotte, Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Manet, Millet, Picasso, etc.
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