Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Fleurs de printemps, La Cruche aux fleurs de printemps (Spring Flowers, The Jug of Spring Flowers) 1930 Oil on canvas, 72 x 60.6 cm Private collection Executed in 1930 during Chagall’s transformative second period in France, Fleurs de…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Ensor au chevalet (Ensor at his Easel) 1886? Oil on canvas, 58.5 × 40.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Muse (The Muse) 1935 Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Returning to a peaceful climate, Picasso painted two Inspiration figures, one drawing its own reflection in the mirror, the other sleeping. The…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model) 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The window in the artist’s studio is both a crossing point and a metaphor for painting.…
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…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos (Madhouse) after 1794 Oil on wood, 44.5 × 69.5 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos 1794 Meadows Museum, Dallas
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Toilette de la mariée (Attirement of the Bride) 1940 Oil on canvas, 129.6 x 96.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Attirement of the Bride is an example of Max Ernst’s veristic…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (Women of Algiers in their interior) 1849 Oil on canvas, 85 × 112 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Paris, entrusted by the artist to the silver statue lottery, around September 1849; acquired from this lottery…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation from San Martino alla Scala) 1481 Detached fresco, 243 x 555 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The usual subject of the announcement to the Virgin Mary by archangel Gabriel is set in a renaissance palace, overlooking…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Oedipe et le Sphinx d’après Ingres (Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres) 1984 Lithograph printed in colours on Arches paper, 117 × 86 cm Private collection Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Oedipe explique l’énigme du sphinx 1808 Musée…