San Gregorio (1473)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Gregorio (Saint Gregory) 1473 Oil on panel, 125 x 63 cm Museo Regionale, Messina This is the left panel of the Saint Gregory Polyptych. Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Polittico di San Gregorio 1473 Museo Regionale, Messina     See…

San Benedetto (1473)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Benedetto (Saint Benedict) 1473 Oil on panel, 125 x 63 cm Museo Regionale, Messina This is the right panel of the Saint Gregory Polyptych. Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Polittico di San Gregorio 1473 Museo Regionale, Messina     See…

La plage de Trouville (1870)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46.5 cm National Gallery, London Monet’s earlier paintings of the Normandy coast had emphasised it as a working seascape, peopled with fishermen who had to…

Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venezia)

Founded: 1869 Address: Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252, 30122 Venezia Website: https://www.querinistampalia.org/ Collection: • Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516): Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (c.1470) See also: • Foundations | Libraries | Museums | Venezia (Italia)

Pièce d’eau à Kew, Londres (1892)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Pièce d’eau à Kew, Londres (Ornamental Lake at Kew Gardens, London) 1892 Oil on canvas, 46 cm x 54.9 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta Like other French artists, Camille Pissarro moved his family to London at the outbreak…

Femme allaitant son enfant (1872)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Femme allaitant son enfant / Hortense Fiquet donnant le sein (Woman breastfeeding her child / Hortense Fiquet breastfeeding) 1872 Oil on canvas, 22 x 22 cm Private collection See also: • Fiquet Cézanne, Marie-Hortense (1850-1922)

Study for Crouching Nude (1952)

Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for Crouching Nude 1952 Oil and sand on canvas, 198.1 × 137.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Few painters have defined the post–World War II era with its existential loathing better than Francis Bacon, the brilliant son…

Moustaches (c.1925)

‎Arp, Jean (1886-1966) Moustaches c.1925 Oil on board, 30.7 x 22.7 cm Tate Britain, London Arp developed a distinctive repertoire of abstracted shapes for his sculptural reliefs. The same motifs, repeated from work to work, were intended as a kind of…

Jean Arp

(1886–1966) Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp The artist’s works: Moustaches c.1925 Tate Britain, London Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Tate Britain, London Born September 16 1886 Strasbourg (France) Died June 7 1966 Basel (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Poet Occupation Sculptor…

La tempête (c.1931)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La tempête (The Tempest) c.1931 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Magritte sought to create what he called “poetic paintings.” Here he balanced solid and void, light and dark, and hard and soft to create…