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…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Nu couché sur le côté gauche (Nude lying on the left side) 1917 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 146.7 cm Private collection “There is only one painter of the modern nude” – André Salmon. Fifteen Francs a day.…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model) 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The window in the artist’s studio is both a crossing point and a metaphor for painting.…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) 1917 Oil on linen, 149 x 72 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The writer Bella Rosenfeld, represented here as a giantess, would be Chagall‘s muse throughout her life. Taking up…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Windmill c.1917 Oil on canvas, 100.33 × 95.25 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Even in his own lifetime, Piet Mondrian was lauded as the founder of the most modern, avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Nevertheless, before…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Symphonie pastorale (The Pastoral Symphony) 1916–1920 Oil on canvas, 130 × 160 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Morris, William (1834-1896) Strawberry Thief design registered 1883, printed 1917–1923 Cotton, 274.3 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Laveuse (Washerwoman) 1917 Bronze, 122.6 x 54.6 x 127 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Renoir conceived Washerwoman as one of a pair of figures. The other, never completed, would have been a blacksmith. The figures were…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue de village (Village street) c.1917 Oil on canvas, 53 x 76.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This view of around 1917 depicts the suburb of Sannois in the north-west of Paris, an area which the artist painted repeatedly…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait c.1917, cast c.1925–1928 Bronze, 27.6 x 18.4 x 25.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington