Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara early 1480s Oil on wood, 68.3 x 73.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Memling adapted this composition from a large, celebrated altarpiece that he completed in 1479…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dressing for the Carnival 1877 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this painting Homer evoked the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that is a legacy of slavery—specifically the Jonkonnu…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Los segadores (The Harvesters) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid Like other painters in his circle, Picasso was keen to find new techniques that would enable him to handle…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957 Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon Bacon based this painting on a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh which he knew only from…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 90.8 x 3.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La masía (The Farm) 1921–1922 Oil on canvas, 123.8 x 141.3 x 3.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Miró moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1920, determined to participate in the artistic vanguard of the French capital.…
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) 1903 Oil on board, 55 x 60 cm Private collection, Zürich
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Diane sortant du bain (Diana leaving her Bath) 1742 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…