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Sea-mist reveals French painter (7)

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I believe the answer is:

matisse

'french painter' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'sea-mist reveals' is the wordplay.
'reveals' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'revealing' mean this).
'sea'+'mist'='seamist'
'seamist' anagrammed gives 'MATISSE'.

(Other definitions for matisse that I've seen before include "French painter, d. 1954" , "Henri -, Fr. artist" , "French impressionist" , "Leading fauvist painter, d. 1954" , "Henri ---, Twentieth Century painter" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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