Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Avant le bain (Before the Bath) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 66.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Renoir first exhibited this painting publicly, at an 1875 auction in Paris, audiences were shocked by its naturalism. Rather than…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Jeune femme tenant une cigarette (Young Woman Holding a Cigarette) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Picasso painted this picture of a sickly-looking prostitute during a trip to Paris in the fall of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune (Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 80.9 × 64.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This portrait is one in a series of four Paul Cézanne made of his…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Marevna (Portrait of Marevna) c.1915 Oil on canvas, 145.7 × 112.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in his career, Diego Rivera enjoyed a brief but sparkling period as a Cubist painter. After years of…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme devant un aquarium (Woman before an Aquarium) 1921–1923 Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 100.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the first two decades of the 20th century, Henri Matisse visited exhibitions of Islamic art and…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maternité (Mother and Child) 1921 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 172.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme à sa toilette (Woman at Her Toilette) c.1875–1880 Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 80.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Consistent with the Impressionist aesthetic that Berthe Morisot fervently espoused, Woman at Her Toilette attempts to capture…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le vieux guitariste (The Old Guitarist) late 1903–early 1904 Oil on panel, 122.9 × 82.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Pablo Picasso made The…