Theodore Reff

Theodore Franklin Reff (born 1930) is Professor Emeritus of European Painting and Sculpture, 1840–1940 at Columbia University.

Reff is an expert on French art of the nineteenth century, and in particular Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.

In 1987 Reff was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, an order of merit awarded by the French government.

In 2010, at the French Consulate in New York, Reff was presented with the Insignia of Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an order of merit awarded by the French government. Provided by Wikipedia