Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) 1891 Painted plaster, 39.2 x 20.3 x 19.3 cm Tate Britain, London The first purchaser of this work was Walter Butterworth, who in 1911 negotiated the purchase of three bronzes by Rodin…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Violette Heymann 1910 Pastel on gray wove paper, 72 x 92 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs,…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Sita c.1893 Pastel, crayon and charcoal on paper, 53.6 × 37.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Sick Child (Det syke barn) 1907 Oil on canvas, 118.7 x 121 cm Tate Britain, London The Sick Child draws upon Munch’s memory of his sister Sophie’s death from tuberculosis at the age of fifteen. The model…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme au divan (Girl on a Divan) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London The artist’s grandson Denis Rouart writes (9 October 1969): ‘This painting was sold by my mother direct to Vollard…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Girl 1931 Ancaster stone, 86.5 x 60 x 43.3 cm (including base and wooden board) Tate Britain, London From the mid-1920s Moore had advocated the abolition of the ‘Greek ideal’ in sculpture in favour of non-European sources, which…
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…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Father’s Leave-taking 1879 Etching, 18.9 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais), William Holman Hunt was the most dedicated to working directly…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games) 1888 Woodcut printed in black on beige wove paper, 15.5 × 18.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Head of a girl s.d. Black chalk, 33.9 x 26.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton