Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) Cossacks (Cosaques) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 94.6 × 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The ‘cossacks’ of the title are Russian cavalrymen which you can just recognise from their orange hats at the top and right of the painting. However…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Pont de la Concorde 1913–1915 Oil on canvas, 60 × 83.2 cm Tate Britain, London A view from the Pont de la Concorde in Paris, looking up the Seine towards the Ile de la Cité and Notre-Dame. The other…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Table (The Table) 1925 Oil on canvas, 102.9 × 74.3 cm Tate Britain, London This painting was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund. In January 1924 the wealthy textile manufacturer Samuel Courtauld gave the large sum…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Baigneuse, de dos (Bathing Woman, Seen from the Back) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 44.1 × 34.6 cm Tate Britain, London The bather was almost certainly Bonnard‘s companion and wife-to-be Marthe, who was the artist’s constant and favourite model. Like…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le Café (Coffee) 1915 Oil on canvas, 73 × 106.4 cm Tate Britain, London The dining table was one of Bonnard’s favourite subjects. Its associations with domestic routine and conviviality were in tune with his intimate vision of art.…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le Bain (The Bath) 1925 Oil on canvas, 86 × 120.6 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a series of paintings that Bonnard made of his wife Marthe in the bath. Though she was in her mid-fifties,…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Fenêtre (The Window) 1925 Oil on canvas, 108.6 × 88.6 cm Tate Britain, London In this work, Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight of the South of France. It was made in a rented apartment…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Three Seated Figures 1941 Indian ink with charcoal, wax crayon on papel mounted on board, 48 x 37 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved Drawing became an ideal medium for the British sculptor…
(1862–1946) née Kathleen Maude Doane Maude in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The French Breakfast 1910 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The Mantle Piece 1912 Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob Born June 26 1862 Montréal (Canada) Died October 13 1946 Manhattan,…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Rainbow Landscape c.1636 Oil on oak panel, 135.6 x 235 cm Wallace Collection, London