Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse painted this work in Nice, a city in the South of France that he visited frequently in the 1920s. The canvas is…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Avant le bain (Before the Bath) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 66.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Renoir first exhibited this painting publicly, at an 1875 auction in Paris, audiences were shocked by its naturalism. Rather than…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Léda au cygne (Leda and the Swan) c.1880 (possibly later) Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 74.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This picture is unusual in Cézanne‘s oeuvre for its specific literary subject matter. It represents the story from Ovid‘s…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Jeune femme tenant une cigarette (Young Woman Holding a Cigarette) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Picasso painted this picture of a sickly-looking prostitute during a trip to Paris in the fall of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune (Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 80.9 × 64.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This portrait is one in a series of four Paul Cézanne made of his…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Femme allongée (Reclining Woman) 1922 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Fernand Léger first saw the work of the Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Juif priant (The Praying Jew) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 89.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Signed, l.r.: “MArc / ChAgAll” Marc Chagall had…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907 Oil on canvas, 71.4 × 56.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The year 1907 was a turning point for John Singer Sargent, as he daringly stepped away from his successful…