Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (Pietà or Revolution by Night) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 88.9 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst was a surrealist artist. Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) theory of the unconscious, surrealism…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) William De Morgan 1909 Oil on canvas, 68.8 x 54.8 cm National Portrait Gallery, London Painted by his wife, the renowned artist Evelyn de Morgan, this portrait shows De Morgan ‘surrounded by tokens of his two professions’, holding…
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Frida y Diego Rivera (Frieda and Diego Rivera) 1931 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 78.74 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 Oil on cardboard on wood, 95.2 x 74.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a balding, bearded man with pale, peachy skin and wearing a three-piece suit, seated in a…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret (Portrait of Théodore Duret) 1868 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 35.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris After the tumultuous exhibition of the Olympia (Paris, Musée d’Orsay) that scandalised the Salon in 1865, Manet left for Spain…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Place de la Concorde 1875 Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 117.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Place de la Concorde (Paris)
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1867 Oil on canvas, 64 x 55.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Nadar (1820-1910) Edmond de Goncourt 1877 Carbon print, 24 x 19.5 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896)
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) L’Homme en bleu (Man in Blue) c.1921 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 65.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though conventional in format, this portrait of an unidentified man is uniquely Soutine‘s in its gestural brushwork and fiery colors. As in…