Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Fleur coquillage (Flower-Shell) 1927 Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid The present Flower-Shell belongs to a set of canvases on the same theme executed between 1927 and 1929, when Max Ernst was…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Coup de lumière (Effect of Light) 1935 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 61.6 cm Tate Britain, London Although this picture was dated 1926 when exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, its first owner, Sam Salz, said that it…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Seated Woman: Shell Skirt 1960 Bronze, 22.8 × 8.4 × 8.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) La vergogna di Rinaldo davanti allo scudo magico (Rinaldo turning in Shame from the Magic Shield) c.1740–1746 Oil on canvas, 161.3 × 53.5 cm National Gallery, London This painting shows Rinaldo, a Christian knight who has been enchanted by…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Solitude (Loneliness) 1931 Oil on canvas, 35.2 x 27.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford “Solitude” was the first painting by Dalí to enter a museum collection anywhere in the world, and it is typical of his earliest, often…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) La Coquille (The Shell) 1912 Pastel on paper, 52 x 57.8 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) c.1912 Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard, 82 x 62 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Nature morte aux poissons et coquillages (Still Life with Fish and Shells) 1898 Oil on canvas, 81 x 100.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’idole à la coquille (Idol with a shell) c.1900 Wood, diam. 12,5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Huîtres (Oysters) 1862 Oil on canvas, 39.2 x 46.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A plate of oysters, a halved lemon, an oyster fork and shells, and a dish of salt are arranged on a wooden…