Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Berthe Morisot c.1869–1873 Oil on fabric, 74 x 60 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Manet kept this portrait of Morisot throughout his life, and it was listed in the inventory of his studio after his death. This…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso (Antigraceful) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 58.4 × 53.3 × 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this bust of his mother, Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, the artist employs Cubist distortions and fragmentation to undermine conventional…
El Greco (1541-1614) El caballero de la mano en el pecho (The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 81.8 x 66.1 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This bust-length portrait entered the royal collections as a…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Buste de femme (Female bust) s.d. Oil on canvas, 73 x 50 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Throughout his career, Modigliani demonstrated an almost exclusive devotion to single figures, which he described as a…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Manuel Ortiz de Zárate s.d. Graphite on paper, 27.4 x 21.2 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See also: • Ortiz de Zárate, Manuel (1887-1946)
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Marie l’acrobate (Mary the Acrobat) 1936 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Circus images began to appear in Léger’s work roughly twenty years prior to Marie l’acrobate (Marie, the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Segretario (Secretary) 16th century Oil on canvas, 76 x 66 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman 1634 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 55.6 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This bust of a young woman turning slightly to the left and inclining her head just a bit…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Suzanne Valadon (Portrait of Suzanne Valadon) 1885 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In 1885, at the age of just twenty-one, in search of independence and…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait du père de l’artiste (Portrait of the Artist’s Father) c.1905 Oil on canvas, 21.8 x 16 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Henri Rousseau is one of the most representative and interesting figures in…