Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) ABC 1927 Gouache on paper, 19.4 × 27.8 cm Tate Britain, London ABC is a preparatory study in gouache for the oil painting Nature morte A.B.C., 1927, given by Léger’s art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to the Musée Fernand…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’éventail (The Fan) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 30.5 × 30 cm Tate Britain, London The Fan is painted in Marie Laurencin’s typically restrained palette of blue, rose and grey. It depicts two women staring at the viewer from…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Femmes en prière (Women in Prayer) 1888 Oil on canvas, 133.5 × 177 cm Tate Britain, London
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…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) L’enlèvement de Psyché (The Abduction of Psyche) 1895 Oil on canvas, 209 x 120 cm Private collection See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) exhibited 1867 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 141.4 cm Tate Britain, London The tale of Cupid and Psyche was written by the Roman poet Lucius Apuleius. Psyche was given a box, supposedly…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu (Harvest: Le Pouldu) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm Tate Britain, London In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry’s boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western…
Clohars-Carnoët in Art: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu 1890 Tate Britain, London See also: • Bretagne | Cities | France
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Not a Shoe 1950 Galvanized plaster, 7 x 5.1 × 2.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Coin de chasteté (Wedge of Chastity) 1954, cast 1963 Bronze and plastic, 63 x 87 × 42 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…