Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L’Estaque) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 80.2 × 100.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In a letter to his friend and teacher Camille Pissarro, Paul…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Sainte-Adresse (The Beach at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.8 × 102.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the summer of 1867 Claude Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of…
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…
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…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Printemps au bord de la Seine (Spring by the Seine) 1878 Oil on canvas, 61.8 x 50.3 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo
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)
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)
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…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Virgen y el Niño con santa Rosa de Viterbo (The Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 190 x 147 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with The Adoration of the Magi,…
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…