Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Marevna (Portrait of Marevna) c.1915 Oil on canvas, 145.7 × 112.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in his career, Diego Rivera enjoyed a brief but sparkling period as a Cubist painter. After years of…
(1892–1984) Мария Брониславовна Воробьёва-Стебельская Maria Bronislavovna Vorobyova-Stebelskaya Marevna Vorobev-Stebelska The artist’s works: Self Portrait 1931 Private collection Marie Vorobieff in Art: Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Marevna c.1915 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Born February 26 1892 Cheboksary (Russia) Died…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La conquista del filosofo (The Philosopher’s Conquest) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 125.1 × 99.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The work of Giorgio de Chirico represents an unexpected form of classicism in early avant-garde painting. This…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice (Interior at Nice) 1919–1920 Oil on canvas, 131.5 × 90.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in 1917, Henri Matisse spent most winters in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast. He often stayed at the…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 Oil on jute canvas, 73 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of seventeen canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Juif priant (The Praying Jew) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 89.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Signed, l.r.: “MArc / ChAgAll” Marc Chagall had…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (At the Cirque Fernando: The Horsewoman) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 161.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme devant un aquarium (Woman before an Aquarium) 1921–1923 Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 100.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the first two decades of the 20th century, Henri Matisse visited exhibitions of Islamic art and…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (The Millinery Shop) 1879–1886 Oil on canvas, 100 × 110.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Of at least fifteen pastels, drawings, and paintings that Edgar Degas created on this subject during the 1880s, The…