Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille au chapeau de paille (Young Woman in a Straw Hat) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 47 x 38.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The model is Renoir‘s mistress, Lise Tréhot, who wears a day dress and straw hat…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) En été, la Bohémienne (In Summer, the Bohemian) 1868 Oil on canvas, 85 x 59 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin See also: • Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna) 1915 Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 90.5 cm Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires This portrait of the writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Espagnole à la croix noire (Spanish Woman Wearing a Black Cross) 1865 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 46.99 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La salle à manger, Opus 152 (The Dining Room, Opus 152) 1886–1887 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Meeting The young Signac begins his painting career as an impressionist. That changes in 1884 when…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1899 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Petit Palais, Paris According to Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), this portrait, undertaken by Cézanne in his studio near the Montmartre cemetery, required 115 morning sittings.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1908 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London One of the principal modern art dealers in the early twentieth century and a shrewd businessman, Ambroise Vollard sold much of Renoir’s work after…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings 1915 Oil on paperboard, 55.5 x 45.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Hastings, Beatrice (1879-1943)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Portrait de Rodin (Portrait of Rodin) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72 x 53 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)