Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Esprit de géométrie (The Spirit of Geometry) 1937 Gouache on paper, 37.5 × 29.2 cm Tate Britain, London Magritte exchanges the heads of a mother and a baby – compressing one and enlarging the other. The effect is…
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…
Boch, Eugène (1855-1941) The Mine Crachet-Picquery in Frameries, Borinage 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 56 x 78 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Exchanged by the artist with Theo van Gogh, Paris, 22 June 1890. See also: • Van Gogh, Theo (1857-1891)
(1855–1941) The artist’s works: The Mine Crachet-Picquery 1888–1890 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Eugène Boch in Art: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Eugène Boch 1888 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Chambre à coucher 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Born September 1…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Fantôme, vision devançant le futurisme (Apparition: Vision Preceding Futurism, Nightmare) 1886 Colored crayon, gouache and gold paint, 21.7 x 29.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les intermittences du coeur (The Fickleness of the Heart) 1950 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 63.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford The Belgian Surrealist Magritte developed a set of symbols that he used in new combinations throughout his career. The…