And so he has created a new company, Cassatt, to go after it.

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Also in the show, paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Gauguin, Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso demonstrate the spells that Degas cast on younger artists.

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"This is the most complex undertaking ever attempted in software, " says William Coleman, who cofounded Oracle rival BEA Systems and now runs server-tech firm Cassatt.

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Morisot and Cassatt were prolific artists, but most of their work is ferreted away in museums, making those paintings that do crop up on the market highly sought-after.

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Or stop by Greensburg on your way back to Pittsburgh for its Westmoreland Museum of American Art (www.wmuseumaa.org), featuring works by Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt, among others.

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At Cassatt, Bill Coleman, a former Air Force captain who has worked in tech for 35 years, saw the cheap wave coming more than a decade ago, when he was still at Sun.

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One reason Morisot took off, experts say, is because she and artists like Mary Cassatt have styles similar to those of famous male painters of the period, in this case Manet and Renoir.

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