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We started the Matta/Renoir tiebreak match last month. This one is the other half of that one.
Marie Laurencin
1883 - 1956
French
Sir Henry Raeburn
1756 - 1823
British
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Back in Spring of last year, Redon and Rego met in the Second Round. Rego won a squeaker, six votes to five, but then ran smack into Raphael in the Third Round and fell to the Left Brackets. Meanwhile, Redon has waited patiently, besting Moholy-Nagy, Modigliani, and Poussin, hoping always for this chance at revenge.
It's a Grudge Match, my friends! And by the Grudge Match Rule, there can be no tie! Or rather, if there is a tie, victory goes to Rego on the strength of that initial victory. Redon has to win outright to stay alive.
Paula Rego
Born 1935
Portuguese
- Demolished Ad Reinhardt in Round 1.
- Nicked Odilon Redon by a single vote in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Stomped by Raphael in Round 3.
- Snuck by Ljubov Popova by a two-vote swing in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Odilon Redon
1840 - 1916
France
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Richard Wilson
1713 - 1782
British
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Konrad Witz
1410ish - 1446
German
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Here's the other half of the tiebreaker that we launched the day before yesterday. Long-timers will now have seen George Bellows more than almost anyone else in the Tournament, but they sure haven't seen him recently.
George Bellows
1882 - 1925
American
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1790 - 1867
French
- Beat Victorian painter William Holman Hunt by a two-vote swing in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Crushed Alexander Ivanov in Round 2.
- Lost to Edward Hopper in Round 3.
- Tied with Jacob Jordaens in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
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Hendrick Avercamp was in on the ground floor of the Infinite Art Tournament -- his name, after all, starts with an "A" -- but he's been locked in ties three times, the most recent one in a match that started in November 2014.
Jacob Jordaens, meanwhile, has been running nose-to-nose with Ingres in a separate Left Bracket Third-Rounder since mid-2015. This week, we're going to break up the logjam. Here's Avercamp and Jordaens, vying for the chance to take on the winner of the Anguissola/Agasse match that has been underway since November 2013. On Thursday, we'll see how George Bellows does against Ingres; the winner of that one will take on the winner of the Reni/Bouguereau match that started about five weeks ago. Yes, that seems odd to me too. The brackets are full of wonders and marvels.
Hendrick Avercamp
1585-1634
Dutch
Jacob Jordaens
1593 - 1678
Dutch
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They were near contemporaries, but it could be argued that their styles were distinct one from another. Today, the first Saturday of August, gives us a Fourth Round showdown between Henri Rousseau and John Singer Sargent!
Henri Rousseau
1844 - 1910
French
- Crushed sculptor Louis François Roubiliac in Round 1.
- Tied with Rubens in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Got by his contemporary and compatriot Alfred Sisley in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Edged by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
John Singer Sargent
1856 - 1925
American
- Beat Juan Sánchez Cotán easily despite crowd support in Round 1.
- Skunked Roelandt Savery in Round 2.
- Skunked Dutch still-life master Rachel Ruysch in Round 3.
Vote for the artist of your choice in the comments, or any other way that works for you. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Fourth-round matches are open for at least three months after posting.
