Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Dans la serre (In the Conservatory) 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin In June 1896, Max Liebermann and Hugo von Tschudi were together in Paris. Tschudi, who had only been director of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes (Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets) 1872 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 40.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet was profoundly marked by the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, throughout which he…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Nymphe surprise (The Surprised Nymph) 1861 Oil on canvas, 144.5 x 112.5 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Étude pour La nymphe surprise 1861 Private collection Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Nymphe surprise…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Atelier rouge (The Red Studio) 1911 Oil on canvas, 181 x 219.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York “Where I got the color red—to be…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (Open Window, Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 46.04 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Matisse‘s Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille endormie au chat (Sleeping Girl with a cat) 1880 Oil on canvas, 120.3 x 91.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown A young woman dozes in a chair, her striped stockings and plain skirt suggesting her humble background.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) c.1889 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 46.36 cm Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano 1892 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a…