Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Rerioa (The Dream) 1897 Oil on canvas, 95.1 x 130.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted this striking work a few years after settling in Tahiti, a French colony in the southern Pacific, and only…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur avec un écran (Interior with a Screen) c.1909–1910 Oil on paper, laid on cardboard and panel, 35.8 x 23.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Like many of Édouard Vuillard’s paintings, this intimate work is painted on paper,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme à la fenêtre (Woman at a Window) 1871 Oil on paper, 78 x 63 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This scene of a woman profiled against a bright window seems serene. However, the English artist Walter Sickert,…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard au chat (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat) c.1924 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 111 cm Petit Palais, Paris In the center of a room cluttered with paintings, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) sits on a chair…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Joueuses de dominos (Domino Players) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted during Matisse‘s fourth sojourn in Nice, this scene captures an easy afternoon of games, with the artist’s daughter, Marguerite, on the…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Femme nue se baissant (Nude Bending Down) 1923 Oil on canvas, 57.1 × 52.7 cm Tate Britain, London A woman is glimpsed quietly wiping her leg. The informality of the pose suggests that the model has been caught unawares…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le bol de lait (The Bowl of Milk) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 121 cm Tate Britain, London Bonnard painted this work in the south of France. He moved there during the First World War with his partner…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Profil de jeune fille (Young girl profile) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.7 cm Private collection A towering figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, Édouard Manet was a serious and dedicated artist strongly committed…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Fleurs de printemps, La Cruche aux fleurs de printemps (Spring Flowers, The Jug of Spring Flowers) 1930 Oil on canvas, 72 x 60.6 cm Private collection Executed in 1930 during Chagall’s transformative second period in France, Fleurs de…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Tanagra (The Builders, New York) 1918 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 149 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington In Tanagra (The Builders, New York), Childe Hassam painted an ambivalent image of modern life. At the turn of the twentieth…