Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Rimbaud 1948 Watercolor on heavy white wove paper, 33.7 × 26 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)
Rimbaud (1948)
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Jean Arp
(1886–1966) Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp The artist’s works: Moustaches c.1925 Tate Britain, London Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Tate Britain, London Born September 16 1886 Strasbourg (France) Died June 7 1966 Basel (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Poet Occupation Sculptor…
Jean Cocteau (1916)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Jean Cocteau 1916 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Modigliani moved from his native Italy to Paris in 1906 and soon became part of the city’s vibrant artistic and literary culture. His…
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(1803–1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC Works: • A Strange Story (English) • Athens: Its Rise and Fall (English) • Devereux (English) • Ernest Maltravers (English) • Eugene Aram (English) • Falkland (English) • Godolphin (English)…
Guido Cavalcanti
(c.1255–1300) Works: • Rime (Italian) • Sonnets and Ballate (English) Cavalcanti in Art: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate…
Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Ink on paper, 19 × 16.8 cm Tate Britain, London The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake‘s and Rossetti‘s greatest pictures. They each saw Dante‘s writings…
Alphonse Daudet
(1840–1897) Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet Daudet’s Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Windmill of Alphonse Daudet. Works: • Artists’ Wives (English) • Cartas de mi molino (Spanish) • Contes de lundi (French) • Fromont and Risler (English) • Jack (English)…
Émile Bernard
(1868–1941) Émile Henri Bernard The artist’s works: Baigneuses à la vache rouge 1887 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Intérieur à Pont-Aven 1887 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Jeux d’enfants 1888 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Autoportrait au tableau “Baigneuses à la vache rouge” c.1889 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Baigneuses…
Il Poeta (c.1620-1621)
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il Poeta (The Poet) c.1620–1621 Etching, 15.8 x 12.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ribera produced a small but distinctive group of sixteen etchings, most during a short span in the 1620s. Etching was then undergoing…
Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore (1894)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore 1894 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 61 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)