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The White Symphony: Three Girls (c.1868)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The White Symphony: Three Girls c.1868 Oil on millboard mounted on wood panel, 46.4 x 61.6 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1902.138. This…

Three Figures: Pink and Grey (1868-1878)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…

Incoronazione di spine (1540-1543)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Incoronazione di spine (The Crowning with Thorns) 1540–1543 Oil on panel, 303 x 180 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted between 1540 and 1543 for the Confraternità di Santa Corona and placed in the funerary chapel of the brotherhood (decorated…

Cosmos y desastre (c.1936)

Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Cosmos y desastre (Cosmos and Disaster) c.1936 Lacquer, pyroxilin, sand and wood on copper mesh over plywood, 60.8 x 76.1 cm Tate Britain, London Revolutionary artist and activist, David Alfaro Siqueiros is one of the major Mexican…

Train de banlieue arrivant à Paris (1915)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Train de banlieue arrivant à Paris (Suburban Train Arriving in Paris) 1915 Oil on canvas, 88.6 x 115.6 cm Tate Britain, London This painting of a train arriving in Paris attempts to express movement and conflicting energies through…

The Apotheosis of James I (c.1628-1630)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Apotheosis of James I and Other Studies: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, Whitehall c.1628–1630 Oil on oak, 94.7 x 63 cm Tate Britain, London Rubens was the leading artist in Antwerp, and one of the…

Jupiter and Antiope (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Jupiter and Antiope 1659 Etching and drypoint, 13.9 x 20.1 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt depicts the slumbering Antiope so convincingly that it seems he is drawing a model actually sleeping soundly. She lies in a totally relaxed pose, her lips parted…

Faune dévoilant une dormeuse (1936)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Faune dévoilant une dormeuse / Jupiter et Antiope, d’après Rembrandt (Faun Revealing a Sleeping Woman/Jupiter and Antiope, after Rembrandt) 1936 Etching and aquatint on paper, 31.6 x 41.7 cm Tate Britain, London Pablo Picasso’s Faun Revealing a Sleeping…