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…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) The Winkel Mill, Pointillist Version 1908 Oil on canvas, 43.18 × 34.61 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Recently discovered photographs show that Mondrian was inspired by a specific windmill in the countryside near Amsterdam. Perhaps the unrelenting flatness…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow c.1905 Oil on canvas, 37.47 x 48.26 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Piet Mondrian is famous for his abstract paintings, but this relatively early work reveals his origins as a…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Summer Night (Sommernatt) 1902 Oil on canvas, 115.5 by 101.5 cm Private collection “A landscape will alter according to the mood of the person who sees it, and in order to represent that particular scene, the artist will…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Paysage d’hiver (Winter landscape) 1953 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 91.4 cm Private collection In the early 1950s Léger began working on a series of paintings and works on paper on the theme of the Modern landscape which…