Sebastian Smee
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Sebastian Smee

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Born in 1972 in Adelaide, Sebastian Smee is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at the Washington Post. He has written widely about art, and is the author of The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art. He lives in Boston.

Books by Sebastian Smee
Paris in Ruins
Sebastian Smee

The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic's gripping account of how political turmoil in Paris from 1870-1871 gave rise to Impressionism.

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The Art of Rivalry
Sebastian Smee

A fascinating look at the friendships and feuds of some of the world's most famous artists

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