Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (The Artist’s Sister at a Window) 1869 Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits…
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) 1935 Gelatin silver print, montage, 28 x 21.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Maar is hardly alone among Surrealists in making works that suggest or depict sexual practices “forbidden” by society. Photography’s realism…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La Robe Rose (The Pink Dress) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable portraitist Jacques-Emile Blanche witnessed this painting being made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Capucines avec le tableau “Danse” I (Nasturtiums with the Painting “Dance” I) 1912 Oil on canvas, 191.8 × 115.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Matisse‘s representations of his studio often include glimpses of other artwork. Here…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Dora Maar dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar in an Armchair) 1939 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Picasso painted this portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907–1997), then his lover, during…
Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) 31 Armchair 1931–1932 Laminated and painted birch plywood and bentwood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aalto created this lightweight, economical, and comfortable chair by suspending a scrolled seating panel between two U-shaped wood frames. It is built…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Il banchetto di Cleopatra (The Banquet of Cleopatra) 1743–1744 Oil on canvas, 250.3 × 357 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne