Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue de Volterra (View of Volterra) 1838 Oil on canvas, 32.2 x 24.4 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego In 1834, on his second trip to Italy, Corot spent a month in the 14th century hill town…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine) c.1887 Oil on canvas, 66.8 x 92.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Aix-en-Provence (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Corniche près de Monaco (La Corniche near Monaco) 1884 Oil on canvas, 75 x 94 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Bateau-atelier (The Studio Boat) 1876 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The figure in the boat is the artist, Claude Monet, who outfitted this floating studio with all his supplies so that he…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Haere Pape 1892 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 67.3 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Fed up with industrialized Europe, Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 seeking a simpler, more “primitive” way of life, one uncorrupted by modern technology…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Persiennes (The Venetian Blinds) 1919 Oil on canvas, 130 × 89 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Henri Matisse painted this canvas in his hotel room in Nice, in the South of France, where he spent his winters beginning…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907 Oil on canvas, 71.4 × 56.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The year 1907 was a turning point for John Singer Sargent, as he daringly stepped away from his successful…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L’Estaque) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 80.2 × 100.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In a letter to his friend and teacher Camille Pissarro, Paul…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) L’invention des monstres (Invention of the monsters) 1937 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 78.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s most…