Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore au café (George Moore at the Café) 1878 or 1879 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this unfinished portrait of 1878 or 1879, Manet depicts the Irish…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore 1879 Pastel on canvas, 55.2 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Une ferme en Bretagne (A Farm in Brittany) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 90.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From early in his career Gauguin was attracted to the relatively remote and unspoiled terrain…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Trois femmes tahitiennes (Three Tahitian Women) 1896 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel once carried a note by the artist: “To the unknown collector of my works, Greetings—…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Deux femmes tahitiennes (Two Tahitian Women) 1899 Oil on canvas, 94 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvases that Gauguin sent back to France from the South Seas reflect the license he exercised…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Deux femmes (Two Women) 1901 or 1902 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gauguin based this formidable composition on a photograph of two women seated side by side on the…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (Tahitian Women Bathing) 1892 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 111.12 x 89.21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage tahitien (Tahitian Landscape) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 47.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although the authorship of this picture was once questioned, cleaning and reexamination have securely demonstrated that it is one…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec théière et fruits (Still Life with Teapot and Fruit) 1896 Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 66 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of Gauguin’s most treasured possessions was a painting by Cézanne,…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La Sieste (The Siesta) c.1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unaffected grace and communal ease of Tahitian women impressed Gauguin enormously. The artist worked on this painting over…