Tag: brown

Autoportrait à la casquette (c.1872)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…

Brown and Silver I (1951)

Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Brown and Silver I 1951 Enamel and silver paint on canvas, 144.7 x 107.9 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, VEGAP, Madrid Jackson Pollock, one of the foremost practitioners of Action Painting, began to work on his…

Portrait of a Stout Man (c.1425)

Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) Portrait of a Stout Man (Robert de Masmines?) c.1425 Oil on panel, 35.4 x 23.7 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Robert Campin was a renowned painter of his day whose workshop trained important artists such as Jacques Daret and…

Femme assise (1923-1924)

Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Femme assise (Seated Woman) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The woman portrayed here seems to bear the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her ghostlike silhouette in tones of…

Self-Portrait (1911)

Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York