Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Liberación del peón (Liberation of the Peon) 1931 Fresco on cement, 185.4 × 239.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Avant la course (Before the Race) c.1887–1889 Pastel on paper mounted to cardboard, 57.5 x 65.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland When creating the series to which this pastel belongs, Edgar Degas was inspired by the 19th-century…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pêcheuses de moules à Berneval, côte normand (Mussel-Fishers at Berneval) 1879 Oil on canvas, 176.2 x 130.2 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Mussel-Fishers at Berneval was the last Renoir to enter Albert Barnes‘s collection. He bought the painting in 1942…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…