Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Mermaid 1900 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 66.6 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London John William Waterhouse presented this painting to the Royal Academy after his election as an Academician. From the 1880s Waterhouse exhibited at…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Juan Gris 1915 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani, who left Italy for Paris in 1906, is said to have met the Spanish artist Juan Gris at the apartment of…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Lola de Valence 1915 Oil on paper, mounted on wood, 52.1 × 33.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani consistently integrated stylistic features of African art into his distinctive portraits. This work represents Lola de Valence,…
Hébuterne, Jeanne (1898-1920) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) 1916 Oil on canvas, 50 x 33.5 cm Private collection
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of two pendant portraits that Renoir painted of his elder brother, Pierre Henri, and his wife, Blanche-Marie Blanc…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de Victor Chocquet 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 36.8 cm Private collection See also: • Chocquet, Victor (1821-1891)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chanteuse de Café / Chanteuse au Gant (Café Singer / Singer with a Glove) c.1878 Pastel on canvas, 53.2 x 41 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Because pastel paints can fade, this extraordinary work can be exhibited only…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…