Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso (Antigraceful) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 58.4 × 53.3 × 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this bust of his mother, Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, the artist employs Cubist distortions and fragmentation to undermine conventional…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the…
El Greco (1541-1614) El caballero de la mano en el pecho (The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 81.8 x 66.1 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This bust-length portrait entered the royal collections as a…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Jerónimo (Saint Jerome as Scholar) c.1610 Oil on canvas, 108 x 89 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York El Greco executed at least five paintings of Saint Jerome. In this version, from the last years…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Garçon en culottes courtes (Boy in Short Pants) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 64.77 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Amedeo Modigliani devoted his short and troubled life to creating paintings. He primarily made portraits of…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Hiver, Femme au manchon (Winter, Woman with a Muff) 1880 Oil on canvas, 74.93 × 61.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Along with its pendant, Summer, Winter depicts a fashionable Parisian woman who personifies a season.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse (The Bather) c.1880–1881 Chalk on paper mounted on board, 84.535 x 65.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This is among the most important surviving drawings by Renoir. It relates, without question, to the famous…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Portrait d’une femme coiffée d’un turban bleu (Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban) c.1827 Oil on canvas, 60.33 × 49.21 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In this portrait, Eugène Delacroix uses the familiar conventions…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune fille assise tenant une pomme (Girl with an Apple) 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 57.47 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas At the end of his career, Bouguereau retreated from Paris to the idyllic coastal…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 27.62 × 19.05 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This small portrait head has been identified by Paul Gauguin‘s son, Pola, as a portrait of the painters’…