Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 65.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “I just let my brain rest when I paint flowers,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir remarked. “I don’t experience the same tension as I do when confronted…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme au piano (Woman at the Piano) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Alfred Sisley 1876 Oil on canvas, 66.2 × 54.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Près du lac (Near the Lake) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 47.5 × 56.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Le Grand Canal à Venise (The Grand Canal, Venice) 1905 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo It may immediately strike you that the style of this painting is different from almost any…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Le Boulevard de Clichy, la neige (Boulevard de Clichy, Snow) Oil on canvas, 48.1 x 65.56 cm 1886 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: Boulevard de Clichy (Paris)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 100 × 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons…
(1874–1946) Gertrude Stein in Art: Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Réunion à la campagne 1909 Musée Picasso, Paris Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Works acquired by her: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Canal du Midi 1898 Museo…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Toilette 1889 Pastel on paper, 32 x 23.5 cm Haggin Museum, Stockton