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| | Collection makes big impression - PittsburghLIVE.com |
 | | At nearly a century and a half old, the art of the French impressionists still continues to amaze the masses, causing throngs of art cognoscenti and naives alike to pack museums the world over. |
 | | In the exhibit, on view at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, more than 175,000 visitors have funneled past such masterworks as Edgar Degas' "The Dance Class" and Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," contained therein since the show opened Feb. 5. |
 | | One of 59 paintings by 31 artists in the traveling exhibition "Masterworks from the Phillips Collection," the Renoir is "one of the most iconic images in the history of art," says Tom Hinson, the Cleveland museum's curator in charge of the show. |
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