Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Alfred Sisley 1876 Oil on canvas, 66.2 × 54.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Près du lac (Near the Lake) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 47.5 × 56.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille au chapeau de paille (Young Girl in a Straw Hat) c.1884 Oil on canvas, 56 x 71 cm Private collection
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La salle à manger, Opus 152 (The Dining Room, Opus 152) 1886–1887 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Meeting The young Signac begins his painting career as an impressionist. That changes in 1884 when…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Femme à l’ombrelle (Woman with Umbrella) 1893 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Berthe Roblès in 1895. See also: • Roblès, Berthe (1862-1942)
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Portrait de Maurice Utrillo (Portrait of Maurice Utrillo) 1921 Oil on canvas Private collection See also: • Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 100 × 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Toilette 1889 Pastel on paper, 32 x 23.5 cm Haggin Museum, Stockton