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Which Swedish artist couple — she a colourist painter and he a key modernist — were central to Stockholm's avant-garde in the 1910s?

Answer: Sigrid Hjertén and Isaac Grünewald — Sigrid Hjertén, a brilliant colourist, and Isaac Grünewald, both Matisse students, formed the core of Sweden's modernist avant-garde before the First World War.

Sigrid Hjertén, a brilliant colourist, and Isaac Grünewald, both Matisse students, formed the core of Sweden's modernist avant-garde before the First World War.

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