Possible Clues:

• Artist almost failed to capture a sunset, in the end
• Artist holding it back in group of his countrymen?
• Artist's partner receiving sign of affection, though not at first
• Girl embracing a tense European artist
• Sea mist represented by painter
• Fauvism co-founder
• French painter, d. 1954
• French artist entertained by diplomat is Seurat
• Henri —, French painter
• Runner is in the middle of coursework with painter of the wild beasts