Zab
Zab , name applied to the two principal tributaries of the Tigris River. The Great Zab, 265 mi (426 km) long, rises in SE Turkey and flows generally S through Iraq to the Tigris. The Little Zab, 250 mi (402 km) long, rises in NW Iran and flows SW through Iraq to the Tigris. Both rivers are extensively used for irrigation, flood control on the Tigris, and hydroelectricity. Bakhma Dam on the Great Zab and Dokan Dam on the Little Zab are among the world's highest dams.
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Weinstein Gallery Is Proud to Present Paintings of the School of Paris: Raoul Dufy, Maurice Utrillo, Maurice De Vlaminck; Opens Friday, January 23.
PR Newswire; 1/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...French artists, Raoul Dufy, Maurice Utrillo and Maurice de Vlaminck, entitled...such artists as Raoul Dufy, Maurice Utrillo and Maurice de Vlaminck who found...creativity was in fact boundless. Maurice Utrillo, 1883 - 1955. Perhaps no artist...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Maurice Utrillo Dies
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 11/7/2005; 294 words
; ...France: France's great painter Maurice Utrillo, a genius whose life was tortured...in a world of twilight reality, Utrillo painted until the end and only...Basilica that crowns Montmartre. Utrillo's mother was Suzanne Valadon...
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STOLEN UTRILLO RETRIEVED FROM GREENWICH VILLAGE APARTMENT.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/4/1990; 699 words
; ...arrest came eight hours after the Maurice Utrillo work, "Rue A Montmartre," valued...described the work as "one of Utrillo's best" painted in gouache...woman call up and say she had a Utrillo, and I thought, 'But we have...
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Model, artist and mother
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...urgent once her son, Maurice Utrillo, begins to occupy almost...relationship, fuelled by Utrillo's crushing alcoholism...birth in 1883 of her son Maurice (father unknown) when...son. The large sums Utrillo's paintings fetched...
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Imagination as a route to truth
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/9/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...of the better-known painter Maurice Utrillo. That makes it somewhat difficult...auto accident shortly after Utrillo's Mother was published. She...Random House Dictionary entry for Utrillo reads: "Maurice, 1883-1955, French painter...
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Art Institute places 11 works on block to pay for sculpture
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/10/1990; ; 624 words
; ...Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Pierre Bonnard. A pastel...is $4 million to $6 million. Utrillo's 1913 street scene, "Le Lapin...Agile," a 1913 street scene by Maurice Utrillo, will be sold at auction in New...
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An artist's perch, and then some
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...his house was a refuge," said Maurice Garnier, Buffet's longtime Parisian...windows of the former atelier of Maurice Utrillo, a painter he especially admired...Gauguin were frequent visitors. Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon moved in from...
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Charges of `Fake' Paintings Disrupt Christie's Auction; And at Sotheby's, a Record Sale for British Rail Fund
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/6/1989; ; 667 words
; ...of the works of the late painter Maurice Utrillo, successfully disrupted the normally...market. Fabris, who was close to Utrillo's widow and claims French courts...remained a recognized expert on Utrillo for four decades. Just hours later...
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REVIEW; Timeless, matchless; Milwaukee Art Museum recasts its pre- eminent collection, donated by Peg Bradley
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...La Place du Tertre," one of Maurice Utrillo's finest Montmartre street scenes...but purchases of artists such as Utrillo demonstrate a more subtle and complex eye from the very start. An Utrillo was one of Bradley's first gifts...
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Treasures from French museum make only U.S. stop in Fort Worth.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Picasso and Rousseau. Modigliani and Utrillo. If it sounds like the elements...in, respectively, Rousseau and Utrillo. As for this nonpareil collection...Chaim Soutine, Marie Laurencin and Maurice Utrillo. It is these artists who elevate...
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Maurice Utrillo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Maurice Utrillo , 1883-1955, French painter. He was...Valadon and was adopted by the writer Miguel Utrillo. His mother taught him to paint in order...that ravaged him from a very early age. Utrillo's favorite themes were the street scenes...
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Utrillo, Maurice
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Utrillo, Maurice (1883–1955). French painter...surname from the Spanish painter Miguel Utrillo (1862–1934), who legally...who was 40 years older than Valadon). Utrillo began to paint in 1902 under pressure...
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Valadon, Suzanne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...mother of prominent French painter Maurice Utrillo. Worked During Childhood Valadon...relationship with Spaniard Miguel Utrillo. On December 26, 1883, Valadon...birth on to an illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo, who later became a renowned...
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Suzanne Valadon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Lautrec and Degas, became a painter. Her fresh, intensely personal works, including landscapes, nudes, and portraits, are executed in vibrant colors with heavy black outlines. Valadon was the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo .
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Amedeo Modigliani
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...from which abbreviation, by linguistic corruption, the French referred to him (and also to Pascin, Soutine, and Maurice Utrillo) as peintre maudit (cursed painter). The classically balanced character of Paul Cézanne's mature work...
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