The great "Vanitas I" by Georges Braque, at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, is a classic example.

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Whereas Picasso knew how to compete against fellow painters from Georges Braque to Henri Matisse, Duchamp could not be beat.

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Oscar Wilde poses with a portrait of Dorian Gray, in a stony-looking robe with folds at rocky angles suggesting forms hewed from Georges Braque's imagination.

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"They certainly play on form from traditional African art, but have a strong connection to modern and contemporary art, " he said, citing comparisons to Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Georges Braque.

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And Koetsu's calligraphies on sheets of paper pasted together, paper made in the subtlest imaginable tints and textures, a salmon pink abutting the most delicate smoky blue, display a sensibility that seems an etherealized version of Georges Braque's.

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