Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le Palais des Papes à Avignon (The Palace of the Popes in Avignon) 1836 Oil on paper pasted on canvas, 29 x 22 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Avignon (France)
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La maison grise (The Grey House) 1917 Oil on canvas, 68 x 74 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The Grey House is one of a series of canvases painted by Chagall in his native city, Vitebsk, during the First…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La tour rouge (The Red Tower) 1913 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic works of 1911 to 1917 provided a crucial inspiration for the Surrealist painters. The dreamlike…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La jetée à Cassis (The Jetty at Cassis) 1889 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1887 and 1891, Signac spent the warmer months pursuing his two passions, marine painting and…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Collioure, le clocher, Opus 164 (Collioure, the Belltower, Opus 164) 1887 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Autodidact Paul Signac actually wanted to be a writer, but after seeing the impressionist paintings of Claude…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Building of the Tower of Babel c.1595 Oil on panel, 43.2 x 42.9 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Attributed to Peter Brueghel the Younger, this small panel, from the collections of the Palace of…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del bacino di San Marco dalla Punta della Dogana (View of St. Mark’s from the Punta della Dogana) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The View of St. Mark’s Basin came…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Gazzada (View of Gazzada) 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 98.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The two canvases were acquired for Brera from the antique dealer Alessandro Brison and immediately became one of the…