Tag: head

Girl (1931)

Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Girl 1931 Ancaster stone, 86.5 x 60 x 43.3 cm (including base and wooden board) Tate Britain, London From the mid-1920s Moore had advocated the abolition of the ‘Greek ideal’ in sculpture in favour of non-European sources, which…

L’Esprit de géométrie (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Esprit de géométrie (The Spirit of Geometry) 1937 Gouache on paper, 37.5 × 29.2 cm Tate Britain, London Magritte exchanges the heads of a mother and a baby – compressing one and enlarging the other. The effect is…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1853)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1853 Pastel and pencil on paper, 28.6 x 25.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Compare: Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham     See also: • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882-1883)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Oil on panel, 30.2 x 22.9 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 22 years of age. A young Rossetti in his mid-twenties looking directly at the…

Portrait of Mrs Edith Holman Hunt (1880)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Portrait of Mrs Edith Holman Hunt 1880 Chalk and pastel on paper, 42.8 x 33.8 cm Tate Britain, London Edith Holman Hunt was the artist’s second wife, the sister of his first wife Fanny. It was a…

Paul Gachet (1926)

Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Paul Gachet 1926 Oil on canvas, 40 x 32 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Dedicated on the reverse: “To my friend and compatriot Paul Gachet, Emile Bernard 1926“. See also: • Gachet, Paul (1828-1909)

Tête d’homme et nu assis (1964)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Tête d’homme et nu assis (Head of a Man and Seated Nude) 1964 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Produced late in Picasso’s career, many years after the Cubist period that defined…

Estudios de cabeza y oreja (1665-1670)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Estudios de cabeza y oreja (Studies of a Head and Ear) 1665–1670 Red and black chalk, 18.4 x 14.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The descriptive use of red and black chalk to depict color is…