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14th January 2025

Still Life with a Teapot (1902-6, National Museum Cardiff) by Paul Cézanne was bequeathed by Gwendoline Davies in 1951. As young women and guided by several advisors including Hugh Blaker of the Holburne in Bath who encouraged them to buy works by artists such as Daumier, Monet, Rodin, and Cézanne, the two sisters became serious art collectors. in particular, Gwendoline's was one of the first important collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pictures.

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