Le Bain de Vénus (1751)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…

The Winkel Mill, Pointillist Version (1908)

Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) The Winkel Mill, Pointillist Version 1908 Oil on canvas, 43.18 × 34.61 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Recently discovered photographs show that Mondrian was inspired by a specific windmill in the countryside near Amsterdam. Perhaps the unrelenting flatness…

Journal et compotier (1917)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Journal et compotier (Newspaper and fruit bowl) 1917 Oil on cradled panel, 27 x 35 cm Private collection Juan Gris‘s still-life from 1917, Journal et compotier, captures the exuberance of the artist’s Synthetic cubist style. Following the muted…

Self-Portrait (1966)

Warhol, Andy (1928-1987) Self-Portrait 1966 Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen, 57.2 × 57.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Summer Night (1902)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Summer Night (Sommernatt) 1902 Oil on canvas, 115.5 by 101.5 cm Private collection “A landscape will alter according to the mood of the person who sees it, and in order to represent that particular scene, the artist will…

Pierrot et danseuse (1900)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Pierrot et danseuse, La Danseuse bleue (Pierrot and dancer, The Blue Dancer) 1900 Oil on canvas, 38.4 x 46 cm Private collection Pierrot et danseuse (La Danseuse bleue) is one of the very few oils that Picasso completed…

Profil de jeune fille (c.1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Profil de jeune fille (Young girl profile) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.7 cm Private collection A towering figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, Édouard Manet was a serious and dedicated artist strongly committed…