Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 100 × 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1899 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings 1915 Oil on paperboard, 55.5 x 45.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Hastings, Beatrice (1879-1943)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings before a door 1915 Oil on canvas, 81 × 54 cm Private collection See also: • Hastings, Beatrice (1879-1943)
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Rape of Proserpina 16th–17th century Oil on panel, 43 x 64 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 27.62 × 19.05 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This small portrait head has been identified by Paul Gauguin‘s son, Pola, as a portrait of the painters’…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1632 Oil on canvas, 114 x 78 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the iconography of St Francis of Assisi, which began shortly after his…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 17th century Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 57 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel (The call) s.d. Pencil on paper, 44 x 36 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel 1902 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Enfant à l’épée (Boy with a Sword) 1861 Oil on canvas, 131.1 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled that he had posed for this picture in 1861, when he…