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Coco Chanel
[French Designer, 1883-1971]
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Coco Chanel Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Essay on the artist along with 10 dresses designed by Coco Chanel
California Museum of Photography at U.C. Riverside
Coco Chanel, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
3 items displayed online
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French) 
Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel, 1923, oil painting by Marie Laurencin
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York
Evening dress and coat, white sequins and silk, spring 1970
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York
Evening chemise, pink silk crepe chiffon, ca.1925
Coco Chanel at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Coco Chanel, 1964, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Designers' Block (Blog)
Several photographs by Karl Lagerfeld of Coco Chanel's apartment in Paris
Fashion Victims (Blog)
Some photographs of Coco Chenal by Horst P. Horst
Chanel Corporate Home Page
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Coco Chanel 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Coco Chanel in her salon, watercolor by Cecil Beaton
Travel and Leisure Magazine
Article on Chanel's favorite haunts in Paris
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Coco Chanel parle de l'elegance. Interview with Coco Chanel (in French). Search for "Coco Chanel" to see a variety of other videos related to her or House of Chanel.
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