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A friend who recently attended the Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibit at SFMOMA expressed astonishment that Diebenkorn’s Nude on a Blue Ground (1966) was in many ways similar to a Matisse nude, also with a blue background. “How can he just paint the same thing?” my friend wondered. But he didn’t paint the same thing. More important, he […]

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