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Remarkable promise and tragic mystery surround artist Eugene Warburg. By his late 20s, the New Orleans–born artist had already established himself as a skilled neoclassical sculptor, working in marble, plaster, and porcelain. His career, however, was cut short, and only fragments of his work survive.
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