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"The exhibition at the Leopold Museum spans all the periods of the artist's oeuvre and features more than 100 paintings, some 40 drawings as well as photographs and archival material. It is not only the most comprehensive retrospective in Austria of the Swiss painter's oeuvre to date but also includes an eminent selection of portraits and self-portraits, insights into his early naturalist landscapes and his late nature depictions tending towards abstraction, his important symbolist figural compositions as well as the impressive and moving cycle of works in which Hodler accompanied the death of his lover Valentine Godé-Darel."--Foreword.