Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Retrato de Diego Rivera (Portrait of Diego Rivera) 1937 Oil on wood, 46 x 32 cm Private collection See also: • Rivera, Diego
Retrato de Diego Rivera (1937)
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Pensando en la Muerte (1943)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Pensando en la Muerte (Thinking about Death) 1943 Oil on canvas on masonite, 45.1 x 36.8 cm Private collection
Autorretrato con mono (1938)
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Autorretrato con mono (Self-Portrait with Monkey) 1938 Oil on masonite, 40.64 x 30.48 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Frida Kahlo’s story is one of both tragedy and perseverance. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of six. The disease…
Noli me Tangere (1526-1528)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Noli me Tangere 1526–1528 Oil on oak panel, 76.7 x 95.8 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London When the diarist John Evelyn saw this painting in Charles II’s Private Lodgings at Whitehall in 1680 he recorded…
Erasmus (1523)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus 1523 Oil on wood, 73.6 x 51.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Longford Castle collection, © Longford Castle Collection Erasmus (1466/9 – 1536) was one of the most famous writers of his day…
Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (c.1875)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (Self-Portrait with Pink Background) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 66 x 55.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ecce Homo (1547)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
San Francisco rezando (1638-1639)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco rezando (Saint Francis in Prayer) c.1638–1639 Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 90.2 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena St. Francis of Assisi, a mystic and poet, was also the founder of the Franciscans, an important mendicant…
Femme en costume de ville (c.1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Émile Zola (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…