Tag: España

Fantômas (1915)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Fantômas 1915 Oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms…

San Serapio (1628)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Serapio (Saint Serapion) 1628 Oil on canvas, 120.2 x 104 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Saint Serapion was a monk who gave his life to liberate Christians captured during the thirteenth century in North Africa. The…

Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (1954)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (The Women of Algiers, after Delacroix) 1954 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 72.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Between December 1954 and February 1955, Picasso painted fifteen canvases inspired by Eugène Delacroix‘s famous painting of…

Le peintre (1934)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le peintre (The Painter) 1934 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 80.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Picasso depicts himself standing before his model, Marie Thérèse Walter, object of his passion and persistent subject in his work for nearly…

Maya à la poupée (1938)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maya à la poupée (Maya with her doll) 1938 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 60 cm Musée Picasso, Paris See also: • Widmaier-Picasso, Maya (1935-2022)