Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi Te Marae (The Sacred Mountain) 1892 Oil on canvas, 66 × 88.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This painting of a marae, or Tahitian sacred enclosure, was created on Paul Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti. The artist’s title—Parahi…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille au panier (Young Girl with Basket) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Wearing a chiffon-trimmed hat and holding a straw basket, Berthe Morisot’s young sitter waits, poised to pick flowers…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Disparate de tontos (Fool’s Folly) c.1815–1823, printed posthumously before 1877 Etching and aquatint, 24.1 x 35.2 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Fool’s Folly is among four prints from Los Disparates first published in the French magazine L’Art…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Mermaid 1896 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 552.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Edvard Munch painted Mermaid during an extended stay in Paris in 1896–97, upon receiving a commission for a large-scale decorative work from Axel Heiberg, a…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) 50 cc d’air de Paris (50 cc of Paris Air) 1949 Glass ampoule, h. 15.2 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia See also: • Paris (France)
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forza dinamica del ciclista (Dynamic Force of the Cyclist) 1914 (published 1921) Photolithograph, 21 x 31.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1940 Oil on canvas, 34 x 29.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia During the late 1930s Marc Chagall became increasingly aware of the plight of his fellow Jews in Europe and embarked on a…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers (F 455, JH 1668) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.4 × 71.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Vincent van Gogh painted this luminous image of sunflowers from memory, in the depths of winter in 1889. Throughout his…