Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Iris bleus, jardin du Petit Gennevilliers (Blue irises, garden of Petit Gennevilliers) c.1892 Oil on canvas, 55.2 × 46.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Gennevilliers (France)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) L’Ascète (The Ascetic) 1903 Oil on canvas, 118.4 x 80.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Between 1901 and 1904, during what is now called his Blue Period, Picasso pursued the themes of suffering and alienation, taking the sick, the…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Jeune femme tenant une cigarette (Young Woman Holding a Cigarette) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Picasso painted this picture of a sickly-looking prostitute during a trip to Paris in the fall of…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le vieux guitariste (The Old Guitarist) late 1903–early 1904 Oil on panel, 122.9 × 82.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Pablo Picasso made The…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Horsewoman) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’évasion de Rochefort (Rochefort’s Escape) 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 143 x 114 cm Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich See also: • Rochefort, Victor Henri (1831-1913)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Promenade (The Walk) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 108.3 cm The Frick Collection, New York
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Monet lisant (Madame Monet Reading Le Figaro) c.1872–1874 Oil on canvas, 53 x 71.7 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Grand Canal à Venise (The Grand Canal of Venice, Blue Venice) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT See also: • Venezia (Italia)