Tag: Art

Tristram and Fox (c.1775-1785)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Tristram and Fox c.1775–1785 Oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough had a countryman’s love of dogs and included them in numerous portraits and landscape paintings. He also painted a few works where dogs…

Le Coup de lumière (1935)

Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Coup de lumière (Effect of Light) 1935 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 61.6 cm Tate Britain, London Although this picture was dated 1926 when exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, its first owner, Sam Salz, said that it…

Not a Shoe (1950)

Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Not a Shoe 1950 Galvanized plaster, 7 x 5.1 × 2.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

Coin de chasteté (1954)

Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Coin de chasteté (Wedge of Chastity) 1954, cast 1963 Bronze and plastic, 63 x 87 × 42 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…

Objet-Dard (1951)

Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Objet-Dard (Dart Object) 1951, cast 1962 Bronze, 78 x 197 × 90 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection), Female Fig Leaf (1961…

Feuille de vigne femelle (1950)

Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Feuille de vigne femelle (Female Fig Leaf) 1950, cast 1961 Bronze, 90 x 137 × 125 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…

Le Cirque (1891)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Cirque (The Circus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 186 x 152 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Coming after Parade and Cancan, Circus was the third panel in a series by Seurat on the popular attractions of the modern city…

Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando (1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando (Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Pastel on paper, 61 × 47.6 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a sequence of pastels and drawings, many of which were executed on the…

Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 117.2 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cirque Fernando was built in 1875 near the Place Pigalle in Paris, close…

Miss Lala

(1858-?) Anna Olga Woodson, née Anna Olga Albertina Brown called Lala Kaira, Miss Lala, Miss La La or Mademoiselle La La Miss Lala in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss La La au Cirque Fernando 1879 National Gallery, London    …