Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Girl by the Window 1893 Oil on canvas, 96.5 × 65.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Edvard Munch’s life and art — particularly his iconic work The Scream (1893; National Museum, Oslo) — have come to epitomize modern notions of…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Bord de mer (Seaside, July: Specimen of a Portrait) 1878 Oil on fabric, 87.5 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland From 1869 to 1876, under the pseudonym Coïdé, Tissot published political cartoons in the British weekly…
Director: James Ivory Producer: Ismail Merchant Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Based on: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Genre: Drama | Romantic Music: Richard Robbins Country: United Kingdom Language: English Studio: Merchant Ivory Productions Release date: 1985 Running time:…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto, verso (Self-Portrait, back) 1908? Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Painted on the back of the 1908 Self-Portrait, this further self-portrait by the artist may predate it by a few years,…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) El matemático (The Mathematician) 1918 Oil on canvas, 115.5 × 80.5 cm Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73 x 80 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris After the death of Eugène Manet in 1892, Berthe Morisot left the rue…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Anna and the Blind Tobit c.1630 Oil on oak, 63.8 x 47.7 cm National Gallery, London Even as a young man, Rembrandt was interested in the depiction of old age and aged people. He painted them as if…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Philemon and Baucis 1658 Oil on panel transferred to panel, 54.5 x 68.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The Fireplace 1912 Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 cm Private Collection