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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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kick kick into the long grass conceal a problem or difficulty in the hope that it will not be considered or discussed. The notion is of putting a ball out of play.
kick into touch make it impossible for something to be considered or discussed (figurative use of touch in Rugby and Soccer as meaning the area beyond the sidelines, out of play).
See also
kick up one's heels at heel,
kick down the ladder.
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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LOADSA MONET! Pure gold: La Cuirasse d'Or by Kees van Dongen sold for [pounds sterling]1,329,250.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 2/6/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Harry Mount THE SUPER-RICH aren't like you and me they don't get wet in the rain. And snowflakes are polite enough to avoid their immaculately coiffed hair-dos. It may have been snowing outside, and the streets of London running with grit-flecked snowmelt, but the zillionaires who gathered
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 "The Record (Kitchener, Ontario)")
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Van Dongen retrospective includes Roaring '20s photos.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 2/7/2009; 471 words
; ...retrospective of the Dutch artist Kees van Dongen at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts...prints and archival documents. Van Dongen, a member of the group of artists...personalities of the Roaring '20s. Van Dongen, born in 1877, participated in...
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Kees Maks: Kunsthal Rotterdam. (Rotterdam).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 1/1/2002; ; 476 words
; Even in the artist's native Holland, the name Kees Maks (1876-1967) still draws blanks. Unlike better-known compatriots Jan Slujters and Kees Van Dongen, who were also immersed in Parisian nightlife, Maks...
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New show includes one van Gogh
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/20/1998; ; 559 words
; ...the exhibit of Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery...period, including one by van Gogh himself. No tickets...belong to the gallery. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam...Lautrec, Raul Dufy and Kees van Dongen, who makes an Egyptian...
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Japanese angle to a rare Van Gogh
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/9/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...4m. An uncharacteristic Van Gogh of red gladioli will...offering a magnificent Van Gogh, La Roubine du Roi...Japonaise. Incidentally, Van Gogh owned hundreds of...luscious standing nude by Kees van Dongen from around 1910 is more...
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Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Other Masters to be Seen at The Edmonton Art Gallery.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 3/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...works by such masters as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin...Cote d'Azur near Agay, 1905), Kees van Dongen (Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season...Still-life, c.1886), Vincent van Gogh (Bowl with Summer Flowers...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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AN AUCTION Streisand's personal treasures for sale.(HOME+GARDEN)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 10/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...painting attributed to the Dutch artist Kees van Dongen is one of the most valuable items...exhibited in many museums as Van Dongen, but it's not in the Van Dongen...Chanteuse," above, is attributed to Kees van Dongen. Its worth is estimated...
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Artistic mermaid; Museum shows dress and painting that inspired it
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/12/2006; ; 471 words
; For many years, a painting by Kees van Dongen hung in the salon of fashion giant...Inc. in 1960, called the "Van Dongen Collection," including the shimmering...local fashion shops, saw the van Dongen painting when she was in New York...
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 "The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario)")
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Lincoln still looms large in Washington.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 2/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...retrospective of the Dutch artist Kees van Dongen at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts...prints and archival documents. Van Dongen, a member of the group of artists...personalities of the Roaring '20s. Van Dongen, born in 1877, participated in...
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 "The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)")
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Marchesa's lifestyle and look live on; Biography of Italian heiress is filled with photos of her smoky eyes and flaming hair.(Life)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 8/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...eyes of ash, Casati is the ghost in a 1921 work by Kees van Dongen that in 1960 appeared on the cover of Life as background...below. Above, 1921 painting of Marchesa Casatiby Kees van Dongen. Below, dustjacket of The Marchesa Casati Portrait...
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Kees van Dongen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kees van Dongen Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), born in Holland and a naturalized Frenchman, began his career as a Fauvist painter, later acquiring a reputation as a portraitist and socialite. Cornelis Theodorus Marie ("Kees") van Dongen...
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Dongen, Kees van
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Dongen, Kees van (1877–1968). Dutch-born painter and printmaker who became...police on the grounds of alleged indecency. After the First World War van Dongen became internationally famous for his paintings of fashionable life...
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...common style dependent on neo-impressionism, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edvard Munch. Since 1904 Kirchner had...Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller, Cuno Amiet, and Kees van Dongen. Van Dongen provided a significant contact with the French Fauve...
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Moderne Kunstkring
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...Dutch artists who took part in the exhibition included Kees van Dongen (who had lived in Paris since 1899), Leo Gestel , and...its activities were ended by the First World War. Theo van Doesburg acknowledged the important role the Moderne Kunstkring...
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Alexej von Jawlensky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...important monastery of Beuron), as well as the Fauvist Kees van Dongen, among others. After his return to Munich he met Paul...natural settings was intended. Having studied the works of van Gogh and Matisse, Gauguin and Cezanne and familiar with...
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