Tag: sea

Ballerina = Elica = Mare (1915)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Ballerina = Elica = Mare (Dancer = Propeller = Sea) 1915 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like other artists associated with Italian Futurism, Severini was fascinated by the interactions…

La vague verte (1866-1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La vague verte (The Green Wave) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic remarked that it was “directly…

Cabine de surveillance des douaniers (1882)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Cabine de surveillance des douaniers (Cabin of the Customs Watch) 1882 Oil on canvas, 61 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Of the fourteen versions of this motif painted at Pourville in 1882, this…

Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…

Femme nue couchée (1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Nude) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid…