Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La toilette 1906 Oil on canvas, 151.13 x 99.06 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1904, Pablo Picasso moved from his home in Spain to the bohemian Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, beginning his lifelong relationship with the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence) c.1900–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.28 x 63.18 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Paul Cézanne painted this light-filled landscape late in his life while living in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 65.405 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo One of the few female painters associated with Impressionism, Berthe Morisot created a niche for herself with instinctive paintings of domestic…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Maisons à l’Île d’Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany) 1912 Oil on canvas, 60.32 x 81.91 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo See also: • Bretagne (France)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) 1890 Oil on canvas, 64.45 x 80.33 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Later in his career, Camille Pissarro was deeply affected by Georges Seurat’s theories and techniques.…
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Autorretrato con mono (Self-Portrait with Monkey) 1938 Oil on masonite, 40.64 x 30.48 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Frida Kahlo’s story is one of both tragedy and perseverance. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of six. The disease…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” (Study for “Le Pont de l’Europe”) 1876 Oil on canvas, 83.18 x 122.56 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During his time, Gustave Caillebotte was best known as an enthusiastic collector and…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Combat de tigre et de buffle (Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo) 1908 Oil on fabric, 170 x 189.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Having never ventured outside France, Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel…