Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) L’avant-port du Havre, matin, soleil, marée montante (The Outer Harbour of Le Havre, Morning, Sun, Rising Tide) 1903 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65 cm Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre On arriving in Le Havre, Pissarro wrote…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ vert, ou Calvaire breton (Green Christ, or Breton Calvary) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.5 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune 1889 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo …
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…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Signal of Distress 1890–1896 Oil on canvas, 62 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Following a period spent on the English North Coast, Winslow Homer returned to the United States and settled on the equally cold and inhospitable…
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers (The Port of Antwerp) 1906 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 61.2 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Georges Braque worked in several distinct styles during his career; this painting is characteristic of his Fauve period. In…
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers (Antwerp Harbor) 1905 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 61 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel See also: • Antwerp (Belgium)
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port de La Ciotat (The Port of La Ciotat) 1907 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Découverte des Amériques par Christophe Colomb (The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus) 1958–1959 Oil on canvas, 410 x 284 cm Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg This work is an ambitious homage to Dalí’s Spain. It combines…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Ship 1875 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 97.8 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began this painting after a voyage to the East with his second wife, Edith. Unusually, he painted it largely from memory, rather than from…