La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune-Teller) probably 1630s Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 123.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each…
La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine aux deux flammes (The Penitent Magdalen with two flames) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 133.4 x 102.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pierre Renoir 1890 Oil on canvas, 55.2 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Renoir, Pierre (1885-1952)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Danse à Bougival (Dance at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 181.9 x 98.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The open-air cafés of suburban Bougival, a town on the river Seine west of Paris, were popular recreation spots for…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Moulin de la Galette 1889 Oil on canvas, 88.5 × 101.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago With this painting of the dance hall known as the Moulin de la Galette, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec established his reputation as…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Boulevard des Italiens, matin, effet de soleil (Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight) 1897 Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 92.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (Nude Arranging Her Hair) c.1916 Oil on canvasboard, 104.77 x 75.24 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Suzanne Valadon painted female nudes throughout her career and was one of only a few…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Self-Portrait 1971 Oil on canvas, 35.5 × 30.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2019 The body has long served as an inspiration for…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 90.8 x 3.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Arp, Jean (1886-1966) Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt (Sculpture to be Lost in the Forest) 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Bronze, 9 × 22.2 × 154 cm, 6 × 12 × 10 cm and 6.5 × 5.5 × 9.3 cm Tate…