Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le peintre (The Painter) 1934 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 80.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Picasso depicts himself standing before his model, Marie Thérèse Walter, object of his passion and persistent subject in his work for nearly…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Baigneuse (The Bather) 1922 Oil on panel, 18.7 x 12.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Baigneuse au bord de la mer (Bather by the sea) 1939 Gouache on laid paper, 64.1 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Bather by the Sea is readily identified as Dora Maar by the shoulder-length dark hair,…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Conception des costumes de “Les Biches” (Costume Design from “Les Biches”) 1924 Crayon and ink on paper, 26.7 x 21 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Two Girls with Oleander c.1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 128.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di una nobildonna e suo figlio (Portrait of a Noblewoman and her Son) 1574 Oil on panel, 110.5 x 87 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (Men Shall Know Nothing of This) 1923 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (Pietà or Revolution by Night) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 88.9 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst was a surrealist artist. Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) theory of the unconscious, surrealism…