Word: overmodest
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Guys's estimate of his work was overmodest. Since his death in a charity clinic in 1892, museums and private collectors have begun to collect his drawings. Last week Paris critics had compared him with Rembrandt and Goya, and labeled him "one of the most sumptuous draftsmen of the French school...
...Writer Janet Flanner, who as "Genet" filed some of the best European dispatches of the last decade, has no need to be overmodest...