La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine aux deux flammes (The Penitent Magdalen with two flames) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 133.4 x 102.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pierre Renoir 1890 Oil on canvas, 55.2 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Renoir, Pierre (1885-1952)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El Duque de Wellington (The Duke of Wellington) 1812–1814 Oil on wood, 64.3 × 52.4 cm National Gallery, London This is a portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, one of the leading military and political figures…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme à la montre (Woman with a watch) 1932 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Private collection signed Picasso (upper left); inscribed Boisgeloup and dated 17 Août XXXII. (on the stretcher) “There is no doubt that 1932…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (Nude Arranging Her Hair) c.1916 Oil on canvasboard, 104.77 x 75.24 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Suzanne Valadon painted female nudes throughout her career and was one of only a few…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957 Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon Bacon based this painting on a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh which he knew only from…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for a Portrait 1952 Oil paint and sand on canvas, 66.1 × 56.1 × 1.8 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025 Francis Bacon painted directly onto the raw, unprimed side of the…
Warhol, Andy (1928-1987) Four Mona Lisas 1978 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 127 × 101.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Compare: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) La…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) À la revue blanche, Portrait de Félix Fénéon (At the Revue Blanche, Portrait of Félix Fénéon) c.1896–1901 Oil on paperboard, 46.4 x 57.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York See also: • Fénéon, Félix (1861-1944)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Madame Bonnard 1895–1900 Oil on cardboard, 41.7 x 31.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription upper left: à Bonnard / EVuillard See also: • Bonnard, Marthe (1869-1942)