(1860–1949) James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor The artist’s works: Marine grise 1880 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp L’après-midi à Ostende 1881 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp La Dame en détresse 1882 Musée d’Orsay, Paris La mangeuse d’huîtres 1882 Koninklijk Museum voor…
(c.1450–1516) Jeroen van Aken The artist’s works: The Adoration of the Magi c.1475 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Death and the Miser c.1485–1490 National Gallery of Art, Washington Adoration of the Magi c.1494 Museo del Prado, Madrid Child with Pinwheel and Toddler’s…
(1809–1852) Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь Works: • Abende auf dem Gutshof bei Dikanka (German) • Arabesken, Prosaschriften, Rom (German) • Briefwechsel I (German) • Briefwechsel II (German) • Cossack Tales (English) • Dead Souls (English) • Demonien ruhtinatar…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) 1952 Gouache on card, 17.8 × 14.9 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le thérapeute (The Healer) 1967 Bronze, 152.4 × 137.2 × 87.3 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La boîte de Pandore (Pandora’s box) 1951 Oil on canvas, 45.4 × 54.9 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Double portrait avec chapeau (Double Portrait with Hat) c.1936–1937 Gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative, 29.8 x 23.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Maar sandwiched two negatives of the same model and painted the background and…
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) 1935 Gelatin silver print, montage, 28 x 21.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Maar is hardly alone among Surrealists in making works that suggest or depict sexual practices “forbidden” by society. Photography’s realism…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le rêve (The Dream) 1931 Oil on canvas, 96 x 96 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Dalí and other Surrealist artists created images depicting strange juxtapositions that are sometimes referred to as “dreamscapes.” The Dream gives visual…
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Père Ubu 1936 Gelatin silver print, 39.7 x 29.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Surrealist artist Dora Maar is better known as Picasso‘s dark-haired model and companion in the late 1930s than for her astonishing…