Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maternité (Mother and Child) 1921 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 172.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La crucifixión (The Crucifixion) 1627 Oil on canvas, 290.3 × 165.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church clarified and reaffirmed its doctrine and practices in an effort to…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (Venus de Milo with Drawers) 1936 Painted plaster with metal pulls and mink pompons, 98 × 32.5 × 34 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le fauteuil rouge (The Red Armchair) 1931 Oil and Ripolin on panel, 131.1 × 98.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Pablo Picasso painted numerous portraits of the many women in his life. Often the circumstances surrounding his…
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…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le vieux guitariste (The Old Guitarist) late 1903–early 1904 Oil on panel, 122.9 × 82.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Pablo Picasso made The…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait wearing a hat and two chains c.1642–1643 Oil on panel, 72 x 54.8 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rembrandt is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of painting, as well as a superb and prolific engraver.…
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,…