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Garçon en culottes courtes (c.1918)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Garçon en culottes courtes (Boy in Short Pants) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 64.77 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Amedeo Modigliani devoted his short and troubled life to creating paintings. He primarily made portraits of…

Hiver, Femme au manchon (1880)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Hiver, Femme au manchon (Winter, Woman with a Muff) 1880 Oil on canvas, 74.93 × 61.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Along with its pendant, Summer, Winter depicts a fashionable Parisian woman who personifies a season.…

Les baigneuses (1890-1895)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les baigneuses (The Bathers) c.1890–1895 Pastel and charcoal on paper, 142.24 x 144.14 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Edgar Degas created this monumental bather composition in the mid-1890s, probably after he had seen the great Cézanne…

Danseuses sur la scène (1883)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Danseuses sur la scène (Ballet Dancers on the Stage) 1883 Pastel on paper, 61.6 x 47.31 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In the 1880s and 1890s, Edgar Degas became increasingly fascinated by the ballet, especially its…

La Baigneuse blonde (c.1880-1881)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse (The Bather) c.1880–1881 Chalk on paper mounted on board, 84.535 x 65.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This is among the most important surviving drawings by Renoir. It relates, without question, to the famous…

Jeune fille assise tenant une pomme (1905)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune fille assise tenant une pomme (Girl with an Apple) 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 57.47 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas At the end of his career, Bouguereau retreated from Paris to the idyllic coastal…

Sleepy Baby (c.1910)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Sleepy Baby c.1910 Pastel on paper, 64.77 x 52.07 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Beginning in the 1880s, Mary Cassatt began to investigate themes of mothers and children. This intensely intimate, tightly cropped scene alternates between…

Portrait d’homme (c.1880)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 27.62 × 19.05 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This small portrait head has been identified by Paul Gauguin‘s son, Pola, as a portrait of the painters’…

Lise cousant (1867-1868)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise cousant (Lise Sewing) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 56.52 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pierre-Auguste Renoir met Lise Tréhot in the spring of 1866, when he painted in and around the Forest of Fontainebleau…

Lise au châle blanc (c.1872)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise au châle blanc (Lise in a White Shawl) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 56.2 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Emery Reves and Douglas Cooper each considered this superb – and sentimental – portrait of…