Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Matinée sur la Seine (Morning on the Seine) 1896 Oil on canvas, 89.2 x 92.4 cm Private collection “When you go out to paint try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a…
Matinée sur la Seine (1896)
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Le Jardin de Pissarro, quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (1881)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Jardin de Pissarro, quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (Pissarro’s Garden, Quai du Pothuis in Pontoise) 1881 Oil on canvas, 66 x 54.4 cm Private collection Verso: Deux esquisses d’autoportrait Esquisse d’autoportrait I (Self-portrait sketch 1) Esquisse d’autoportrait…
Place de la Trinité (1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Place de la Trinité 1875 Oil on canvas, 50 x 62 cm Private collection Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Place de la Trinité c.1878 Private collection Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Square de la Trinité 1878–1879 Private collection See…
Place de la Trinité (c.1878)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Place de la Trinité (Trinity Square) c.1878 Oil on canvas, 51 x 62.7 cm Private collection Painted circa 1878, Place de la Trinité represents the height of Renoir’s engagement with Impressionism and emphasizes the importance of his unique…
Square de la Trinité (1878-1879)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Square de la Trinité 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.4 cm Private collection Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Square de la Trinité depicts a Parisian park on a gloriously sunny morning. Populated by elegant figures, this verdant park is lush…
Route de Monte-Carlo (1883)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Route de Monte-Carlo (Monte Carlo Road) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 80.6 cm Private collection Route de Monte Carlo represents the triumphant apex of Claude Monet’s seminal series of works produced as part of his excursion to…
Quai de Clichy, Temps gris (1887)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Quai de Clichy, Temps gris (Quai de Clichy, Grey Weather) 1887 Oil on canvas, 46 x 65.5 cm Private collection Painted in the spring of 1887, Quai de Clichy. Temps gris shows Signac at the height of his…
Drame au village, Pont-Aven (1894)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Drame au village, Pont-Aven (Drama in the village, Pont-Aven) 1894 Oil on canvas, 73.4 x 93 cm Private collection A dream-like, symbolic scene in sultry, evocative hues, Paul Gauguin’s Drame au village, Pont-Aven epitomizes the artist’s fascination with…
Gabrielle (c.1890)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Gabrielle c.1890 Pastel on paper, 55.4 x 46.3 cm Private collection Portraiture was the dominant form of Renoir’s oeuvre during the first few of decades of his career. In the 1860s and 1870s he accepted numerous paid commissions…
La Yole (1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Yole (The Skiff) 1875 Oil on canvas, 71 × 92 cm National Gallery, London We are probably looking at the river Seine near Chatou (some ten miles west of central Paris), although the exact site has not been…