Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) 1904 Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 118.5 x 2.2 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Succession H. Matisse, Paris Luxe, calme et volupté testifies to the work Henri Matisse…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (Open Window, Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 46.04 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Matisse‘s Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) probably 1910 Tempera and oil on cardboard, 83.5 × 66 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 5 things you should know about The Scream Written by: Ute Kuhleman Falck, curator at MUNCH It is one of the…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) 1893 Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo Painted in 1893, Munch’s iconic Scream was donated to the National Gallery in 1910. In terms of its fame, this painting now rivals…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires (Canoes) 1878 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 108.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes The training of Caillebotte, a student of Bonnat, seemed so short to the critic Émile Porcheron that he accused him of “tortizing perspective”. But…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Partie de bateau, dit Canotier au chapeau haut de forme (Boating Party, or Canotier with the top hat) c.1877–1878 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris « Partie de bateau » or « Canotier au…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires sur l’Yerres (Boating on the Yerres) 1877 Oil on canvas, 103.51 x 155.89 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Gustave Caillebotte associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) L’Yerres, effet de pluie (The Yerres, Effect of Rain) 1875 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 59.1 cm Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington