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La Mort des Fantômes (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Mort des Fantômes (The Death of Ghosts) 1928 Gelatin silver print, 13.9 x 8.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great Surrealist painter of philosophical conundrums was also a prolific photographer who sometimes used his…

Garçon avec un chat (1934)

Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Garçon avec un chat (Boy with a Cat) 1934 Gelatin silver print, 41.4 × 29 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1930 to 1934 Maar turned her camera to the inhabitants of the streets of Paris…

Père Ubu (1936)

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…

Dora Maar dans un fauteuil (1939)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Dora Maar dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar in an Armchair) 1939 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Picasso painted this portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907–1997), then his lover, during…

Portrait d’Alphonse Legros (1875)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Portrait d’Alphonse Legros (Portrait of Alphonse Legros) 1875 Etching, 16.7 × 11.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ever the restless printmaker, fourteen years after producing a portrait of his friend Alphonse Legros, Bracquemond modified the copper plate…

Torse (1892)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Torse (Torso) 1892 Plaster, h. 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

L’Amazone (1923)

Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’Amazone (The Amazon) 1923 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Femme assise (1894)

La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) Femme assise (Seated Woman) 1894 Lithograph, 26 × 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mäda Primavesi (1912-1913)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Mäda Primavesi 1912–1913 Oil on canvas, 149.9 x 110.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mäda Primavesi’s expression and posture convey a remarkable degree of confidence for a nine-year-old girl, even one who was, by her own…