Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Geese in an Orchard c.1911 Oil on canvas, 90 x 68 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection In 1911, after a short stay in Germany and after opening an…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Bascule (The See-Saw) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 120 x 94.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Immacolata Concezione (The Immaculate Conception) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 281 x 155 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This majestic image was part of a cycle of seven altarpieces commissioned in 1767 for the new royal church of…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (Madonna and Child Blessing) c.1455 Tempera on wood, 82 x 55 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Different ideas have been put forward regarding the original provenance of the panel, which, in the…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Nature morte avec pommes sur un buffet (Still Life with Apples on a Sideboard) 1900–1906 Watercolor over pencil on paper, 48.58 × 63.18 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The watercolor medium arrived rather late in France.…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des pommes à Éragny (Apple Harvest at Éragny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 73.98 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Points of red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange, and yellow create a stylized and…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune fille assise tenant une pomme (Girl with an Apple) 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 57.47 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas At the end of his career, Bouguereau retreated from Paris to the idyllic coastal…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Nature morte avec pommes, poires et grenades (Still Life with Apples, Pears, and Pomegranates) 1871 or 1872 Oil on canvas, 26.99 × 42.23 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Gustave Courbet was arrested in June 1871 and…
Cárcova, Ernesto de la (1866-1927) Naturaleza en silencio (Nature in Silence) 1926 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Cuchillo y fruta frente a la ventana (Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window) 1917 Oil on canvas, 91.8 × 92.4 cm Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City