Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Aristotele (Aristotle) 1637 Oil on canvas, 124.4 x 99 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Ribera‘s image of Aristotle is one of six imaginary portraits of ancient philosophers commissioned in 1636 by the prince of Liechtenstein. The artist’s…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Mateo (St. Matthew) c.1610–1614 Oil on canvas,28-1/4 x 21-5/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Domenikos Theotokopolous, known as El Greco (the Greek), was a native of the island of Crete. He was trained there as a painter…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Buste de femme au chapeau à fleurs (Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat) July 11, 1943 Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm Private collection See also: • Maar, Dora (1907-1997)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a hat) 1935 Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris See also: • Khokhlova, Olga (1891-1955)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil (Olga in an Armchair) spring 1918 Oil on canvas, 130 x 88.8 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Olga Khokhlova in Picasso‘s Montrouge studio, spring 1918. Olga Khokhlova was the first woman Picasso married, in the summer of…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Olga Picasso 1923 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Private collection See also: • Khokhlova, Olga (1891-1955)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1910 Oil on canvas, 92 x 66 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Arlequin (Harlequin) 1917 Carved and painted plaster, 54 x 33 x 25.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This standing figure is the only sculpture that Juan Gris ever made. The polychrome sculpture is balanced on a protruding wedge-shaped slab…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de un hombre, posible autorretrato (Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The broken, flickering outlines that keep the surface and flesh alive in…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Los segadores (The Harvesters) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid Like other painters in his circle, Picasso was keen to find new techniques that would enable him to handle…