Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Baigneuse au bord de la mer (Bather by the sea) 1939 Gouache on laid paper, 64.1 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Bather by the Sea is readily identified as Dora Maar by the shoulder-length dark hair,…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Conception des costumes de “Les Biches” (Costume Design from “Les Biches”) 1924 Crayon and ink on paper, 26.7 x 21 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arcadie/Idylle: Famille de l’Antiquité (Arcadia/Idyll: Family from Antiquity) 1860 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 51.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Bouguereau, one of the most successful painters of the nineteenth century, was particularly admired in the United States. He…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Le baiser dans la nuit (The Kiss in the Night) 1927 Oil on canvas, 130.2 × 162.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (Men Shall Know Nothing of This) 1923 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Lovemaking (Liebesakt) 1915 Pencil and gouache on paper, 49.6 x 31.7 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (Mars and Venus United by Love) 1570s Oil on canvas, 205.7 x 161 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The love between Mars, the god of war, and Venus, the goddess of…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Reclining Nude 1950 Bronze, 20.3 x 44.8 x 12.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Betsabea (Bathsheba) c.1636–1637 Oil on canvas, 265.4 x 209.5 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.7 x 109.8 cm De Morgan Collection The open book shows a passage from Latin poet Tibullus‘s ‘Elegy‘, where the writer imagines dying in his lover’s arms and considers her grief…