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Rippl-Rónai captured the singular landscape of the South of France
in colourful pictures. In 1901, he returned to Hungary; his intimate paintings
depict his family and his immediate surroundings in subdued colours.
During the first decades of the new century he was influenced by international
Neo-Impressionism and searched for modern possibilities of pictorial expression.
From 1906 onwards, during his so-called "corn"-phase, he applied
bright dabs of unmixed colours to his canvasses. In 1912, retrospective
exhibitions of his work opened in Munich's Modern Gallery, in Frankfurt,
and in Cologne. In 1914, he received a Gold Medal for his portrait of
Maillol exhibited at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
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