Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Brioche (The Brioche) 1870 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet reportedly called still life the “touchstone of the painter.” From 1862 to 1870 he executed several large-scale tabletop scenes…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Morning Glory with Black 1926 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The morning glory rests against a black petunia, seen partially at lower right. O’Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) ABC 1927 Gouache on paper, 19.4 × 27.8 cm Tate Britain, London ABC is a preparatory study in gouache for the oil painting Nature morte A.B.C., 1927, given by Léger’s art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to the Musée Fernand…
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…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte au profil de Laval (Still Life with Profile of Laval) 1886 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In this enigmatic image, Gauguin’s fellow artist Charles Laval peers at an arrangement…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Natura morta (Still Life) s.d. Lithograph; color, 56 x 39.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © Gino Severini / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Nature morte: Pommes et poires dans un panier rond (Still Life: Apples and Pears in a Round Basket) 1872 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 55.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton One of Pissarro’s rare still lifes, this…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Narcissa’s Last Orchid 1940 Pastel, 54.5 x 69.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Here, O’Keeffe exploits the directness and tactility of drawing in pastel, using her finger to massage the color into the paper to create painterly…
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Verre, couteau et assiette de fruits (Tumbler, Knife, and Plate of Fruit) 1918 Graphite, 25.8 x 33.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The Spanish-born painter and draftsman Juan Gris studied mathematics and engineering in Madrid for two…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1861 Oil on canvas, 44.4 x 36 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The painter and critic Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942) compared Fantin-Latour’s studies of the flower—”its grain, its tissue”—to the observation of…