Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme nue dans un fauteuil rouge (Nude Woman in a Red Armchair) July 27, 1932 Oil on canvas, 129.9 × 97.2 cm Tate Britain, London This sensual portrait of Picasso’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted at the artist’s Normandy…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Buste de femme (Bust of a Woman) 1944 Oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm Tate Britain, London This is a portrait of the artist Dora Maar. Picasso painted it in May 1944, during the final weeks of the…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Cirque bleu (The Blue Circus) 1950 Oil on canvas, 34.9 × 26.7 cm Tate Britain, London Chagall drew inspiration from the theme of the circus throughout his life. As a child in Russia, he had been fascinated…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Le Petit Paysan (The Little Peasant) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 100 × 64.5 cm Tate Britain, London
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Water Jug) c.1892–1893 Oil on canvas, 53 × 71.1 cm Tate Britain, London Cézanne was preoccupied with still life, and painted the same objects over and over again. His concentrated…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1972 Bronze, 117.5 × 87.6 × 36.8 cm Tate Britain, London In the early years of the twentieth century, industrialisation swept across Italy. The…
Blake, William (1757-1827) Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims 1810, reprinted before 1881 Engraving on paper, 35.7 x 96.7 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400)
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) A Priestess of Apollo c.1888 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 29.8 cm Tate Britain, London In Roman mythology, Apollo was the sun god who lived in Mount Olympus, and who, in the guise of the sun, rode his…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in Interior) 1932 Gouache with pastel, watercolor, and charcoal on tan wove paper, laid down on canvas, 72.7 × 91.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Studio di panneggio (Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profile) late 1460s-early 1470s Brush and opaque watercolor, on linen, mounted to paper, 28.3 × 18.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago