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Caricature de Paul Gauguin (1889)

Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Caricature de Paul Gauguin (Caricature of Paul Gauguin) 1889 Watercolor and black ink on paper, 19.9 x 15.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the…

Cupidon et Psyché (1817)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) 1817 Oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base…

Frère et soeur (1891)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) 1891 Painted plaster, 39.2 x 20.3 x 19.3 cm Tate Britain, London The first purchaser of this work was Walter Butterworth, who in 1911 negotiated the purchase of three bronzes by Rodin…

Self-Portrait as a Deaf Man (c.1775)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Self-Portrait as a Deaf Man c.1775 Oil on canvas, 75.9 x 63.4 cm Tate Britain, London Creating self-portraits in character or pulling a face was a traditional form of student exercise. But this image was created when the…

Self-Portrait (c.1775)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Self-Portrait c.1775 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 61 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of Reynolds‘s most explicit attempts to rival Rembrandt as a self-portraitist. By the time he painted this work, he was the most famous…

Girl (1931)

Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Girl 1931 Ancaster stone, 86.5 x 60 x 43.3 cm (including base and wooden board) Tate Britain, London From the mid-1920s Moore had advocated the abolition of the ‘Greek ideal’ in sculpture in favour of non-European sources, which…

L’Esprit de géométrie (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Esprit de géométrie (The Spirit of Geometry) 1937 Gouache on paper, 37.5 × 29.2 cm Tate Britain, London Magritte exchanges the heads of a mother and a baby – compressing one and enlarging the other. The effect is…

Dora Maar assise (1938)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Dora Maar assise (Dora Maar Seated) 1938 Ink, gouache and oil on paper on canvas, 68.9 × 62.5 cm Tate Britain, London Dora Maar was a painter who exhibited with the Surrealist group, before becoming a photographer and…

Répétition du service (c.1870)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Répétition du service (Rehearsing the Service) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris…