El Greco (1541-1614) San Pablo (St. Paul) 1598–1600 Oil on canvas, 69.9 x 55.9 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Distinguished by his sword, the Christian apostle Paul holds a folded paper between the tips of his fingers. Its Greek…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La Paix (Peace) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 107.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Two children embrace each other within a pastoral setting in this idyllic view. Adolphe-William Bouguereau, the prominent academic painter, showed “Peace”…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith and Holofernes) c.1554 Oil on panel, 108 x 79.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This biblical heroine’s strong arms and angled shoulders create lively diagonal lines that enhance her exaggerated musculature. Judith…
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Danae c.1612 Oil on copper, 41.3 × 52.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Artemisia Gentileschi excelled at capturing textures, as seen in this reclining figure’s golden hair, the lush fabrics, and metal coins that fall on…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Le Bal à Suresnes (At the Suresnes Ball) 1903 Oil on canvas, 180 × 145.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis A man in an infantry uniform dances with a taller woman, the splayed fingers of his…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Femme en rose (Woman in Pink) c.1924 Oil on canvas, 73 × 54.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Chaïm Soutine twisted the form of his female subject into a swirling mass of red, coral, and yellow brushstrokes…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Le Lapin écorché (The Flayed Rabbit) c.1921 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia A flayed rabbit lies splayed on a white cloth, its clouded eye just visible. Soutine has given us a bird’s-eye view of…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Le Pâtissier (The Pastry Chef, Baker Boy) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 66 x 51 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Albert Barnes first visited Chaim Soutine‘s Paris studio in 1922, the struggling artist was known only in the city’s…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Naturaleza muerta (Still Life) 1918 Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Gitano de Figueres (Gypsy from Figueres) 1923 Oil and gouache on cardboard, 104 x 75 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid See also: • Figueras (España)