Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan 1897 Oil on canvas, 50 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Carmen Rossi, the sitter of this small portrait, was an Italian girl who posed for Whistler as a child and…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’éventail (The Fan) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 30.5 × 30 cm Tate Britain, London The Fan is painted in Marie Laurencin’s typically restrained palette of blue, rose and grey. It depicts two women staring at the viewer from…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Narcissa’s Last Orchid 1940 Pastel, 54.5 x 69.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Here, O’Keeffe exploits the directness and tactility of drawing in pastel, using her finger to massage the color into the paper to create painterly…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Parlement, Symphonie en rose (The Parliament, Symphony in Rose) 1900 Oil on canvas, 82 x 92.6 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Palace of Westminster (London)
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Le bouquet de violettes (The Bouquet of Violets) c.1877–1878 Pastel on wove paper, 25.1 x 19.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Guérard-Gonzalès, Jeanne (1852-1924)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (The Happy Chances of the Swing) c.1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.2 cm Wallace Collection, London