Tag: shell

Saliera (1540-1543)

Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Saliera (Salt Cellar) 1540–1543 Gold, enamel, ebony, ivory, 28.5 × 21.5 × 26.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The only extant work in gold by this Florentine artist already famous during his lifetime, Cellini’s masterpiece is far more than a…

Fleur coquillage (1927)

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…

Le Coup de lumière (1935)

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…

La Solitude (1931)

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…