Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La naissance des désirs liquides (Birth of Liquid Desires) 1931–1932 Oil and collage on canvas, 96.1 x 112.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York By the time Salvador…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di un giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1510 Mixed technique on poplar, 20 x 17 x 0.4 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt This early work by Titian presents such a radically close-up view of the sitter that he has…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval (In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse) 1891 Oil on jute canvas, 73 x 92 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Prior to his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Paul Gauguin claimed—from a…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) L’Oise à Pontoise au temps gris (The Oise in Pontoise in gray weather) 1876 Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 64 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Pissarro believed that ‘Everything is suitable for drawing, everything!’ He was true to…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Déjeuner sur l’herbe, d’après Manet, I (Lunch on the Grass, after Manet, I) 1962 Colour linocut, 64 x 53 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Ernst, Max (1891-1976)…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Déjeuner sur l’herbe, d’après Manet, II (Lunch on the Grass, after Manet, II) 1962 Colour linocut, 53 x 64 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Ernst, Max (1891-1976)…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pêcheurs sur la Seine près de Poissy (Fishermen on the Seine near Poissy) 1882 Oil on canvas, 59.8 × 81.7 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna See also: • Poissy (France)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Manucure (The Manicure) 1897 Oil on board, 33.5 x 30 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Like his friend Bonnard, Vuillard was a founder member of Les Nabis. Les Nabis were influenced by Gauguin‘s ideas on Synthetism –…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Rebecca al pozzo (Rebecca at the Well) c.1582–1588 Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 282.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Three men, one woman, and three camels gather around the stone ledge of a well in this horizontal landscape…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Trasfigurazione (The Transfiguration) 1516–1520 Tempera grassa on wood, 410 x 279 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici (the future pope Clement VII) commissioned two paintings for the cathedral of S. Giusto of Narbonne, the city of which…