Miró, Joan (1893-1983) Caballo, pipa y flor roja (Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower) 1920 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 74.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Miró painted this work at his home in the Spanish village of Montroig shortly after his…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree) 1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Joan Miró’s searches for new plastic solutions between 1916 and 1918 led to the creation of four ‘detailist’…
(1893–1983) Joan Miró i Ferrà The artist’s works: La casa de la palmera 1918 Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Caballo, pipa y flor roja 1920 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia La masía 1921–1922 National Gallery of Art, Washington La terre labourée 1923–1924 Guggenheim Museum, New…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Adoration of the Magi 2nd half of the 16th century Oil on canvas, 36 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Peter Brueghel the Younger based this painting on a work by his father, the great…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan 1897 Oil on canvas, 50 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Carmen Rossi, the sitter of this small portrait, was an Italian girl who posed for Whistler as a child and…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto di dama con cagnolino (Portrait of a Woman with a Dog) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Along with Titian and Tintoretto, Paolo Caliari — known as Veronese — was one of…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Pompadour à sa toilette (Pompadour at Her Toilette) 1750 Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 64.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), became the official mistress of Louis XV in 1745. Numerous portraits of her…
Raffaello (1483-1520) and Collaborator Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1518–1519 Oil on panel, 43.8 x 29 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait was acquired from the Julius Böhler gallery in Berlin in December 1928 as a work by…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Plantation Settlement in Brazil 1656 Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection This panoramic view of a plantation settlement in Brazil was recollected by Frans Post one dozen years after he had…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) New York Street with Moon 1925 Oil on canvas, 122 x 77 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection ‘One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.’…