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L’invention des monstres (1937)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) L’invention des monstres (Invention of the monsters) 1937 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 78.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s most…

La Asunción de la Virgen (1577-1579)

El Greco (1541-1614) La Asunción de la Virgen (The Assumption of the Virgin) 1577–1579 Oil on canvas, 403.2 × 211.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This painting was the central element of the altarpiece that was El Greco’s first major…

Le quai de Bougival (1883)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Le quai de Bougival (The Quay at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 46.1 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Bougival (France)

Le Palais des Papes à Avignon (1836)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le Palais des Papes à Avignon (The Palace of the Popes in Avignon) 1836 Oil on paper pasted on canvas, 29 x 22 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Avignon (France)

Champ de blé (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Champ de blé (Wheatfield) 1879 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen This landscape shows a wheat field near Wargemont, in Normandy, where Renoir spent several summers at the estate of his…

Evening (1888)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Evening 1888 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid From very early on in his career Edvard Munch aimed to convey the angst and isolation characteristic of…

Bay with Boat and House (1881)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Bay with Boat and House 1881 Oil on cardboard, 37 x 51 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection A few weeks before his seventeenth birthday in November 1880, Edvard…

Marée basse à Varengeville (1882)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée basse à Varengeville (Low Tide at Varengeville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection In February 1882, Claude Monet left Poissy to travel to Dieppe and Pourville, on the Norman…