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`` time '' magazine cover artist john , '' on a 1928 '' post-impressionism 31 october 1961 fordingbridge , hampshire , england tenby , pembrokeshire , wales order of merit , ra welsh augustus john painter 4 january 1878 time-magazine-cover-augustus-john . jpg augustus john
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augustus john

augustus edwin john -lrb- 4 january 1878 -- 31 october 1961 -rrb- was a welsh painter , draughtsman , and etcher .
for a short time around 1910 , he was an important exponent of post-impressionism in the united kingdom .
`` augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings , and then for a new technique of oil sketching .
his work was favourably compared in london with that of gauguin and matisse .
he then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant , catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects . ''
