Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de deux fillettes (Portrait of Two Little Girls) 1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 55 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Renoir was very fond of representing two young girls enjoying the same pastime together. This was one of…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Evening Talk 1889 Oil on canvas, 175.6 x 216 x 9.1 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Munch’s lifelong obsession with loneliness and psychologically twisted love relationship began with this large picture. This was the first time that he…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del pittore veneziano Giovanni Bellini (Portrait of the Venetian Painter Giovanni Bellini) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 80 x 66 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen According to the Italian artist and historiographer Giorgio Vasari’s (1511-1574) biography from 1568, Titian…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Alice c.1918 Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 39 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Modigliani worked almost exclusively with the human figure and is particularly well known for his portraits. When he painted this picture his characteristic style of…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Femme en chemise (Woman in a chemise) 1906 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Effortless nonchalance and confident mastery. That’s the winning combination which enabled André Derain to create a masterpiece that now…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo in pietà sorretto da due angeli (Christ as the Suffering Redeemer supported by two angels) 1495–1500 Tempera on panel, 78 x 48 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The Gospel according to St. Luke begins its account of…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Incontro di Gioacchino e Anna fuori dalla Porta Aurea di Gerusalemme (Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem) 1497 Tempera on panel, 112.5 x 124 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Filippino Lippi first studied…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Melancholy 1532 Oil on panel, 61 x 97 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The sixteenth-century artist Lucas Cranach has become very popular in recent years, prompting a steady succession of exhibitions featuring his mysterious images. SMK…
El Greco (1541-1614) Retrato de un hombre (Portrait of a Man) 1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116 x 98 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The chalk holder on the armrest, accompanied by a book with white and red bookmarks, suggests that the…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Crouching human couple / The Family (Kauerndes Menschenpaar / Die Familie) 1918 Oil on canvas, 150 × 160.8 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna A man and a woman, both naked, crouch in the darkness of a room. A child…