Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche (Fourth Position Front on the Left Leg) c.1880s, cast 1919–1921 Bronze, 58.4 x 37.9 x 35.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Persée et la Gorgone (Perseus and the Gorgon) c.1897 Marble, 196 x 111 x 90 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine “It’s Medusa!” “It’s Percy Jackson!” As soon as they catch sight of Perseus and the Gorgon, a marble…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Abandon (Abandonment) c.1886 Bronze, 42.3 x 39.1 x 20.5 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine © Musée Camille Claudel, photo by Marco Illuminati This bronze sculpture is a small model produced in 1905 by the foundryman and collector Eugène Blot,…
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.…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Testa di donna (Head of a Woman) 1915 Oil on paper, 43 x 26 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Modigliani was above all a portraitist. According to Werner Schmalenbach, his need to “take possession of those around him” stemmed…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Tête de taureau (Head of a Bull) 1942 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The expressive brutality of the animal’s bleeding, severed head in such flagrant contrast with the white cloth reminds…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Testa di giovane donna (Head of a Young Lady) 1915 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The work, along with the Portrait of Moisé Kisling, belonged at first to Paul Guillaume, art…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Trois Femmes et nature morte, Déjeuner (Three Women and Still Life) 1920 Oil on canvas, 74.3 × 92.08 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The monumental bodies of Three Women and Still Life (Déjeuner) are composed of…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Tête de saint Jean l’Evangéliste (Head of Saint John the Evangelist) s.d. Oil on canvas, laid down on wood, 39.4 x 27 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a study for an…