O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) New York Street with Moon 1925 Oil on canvas, 122 x 77 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection ‘One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.’…
Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Night Feast (Nächtliches Fest) 1921 Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard painted with oil, mounted on board, 36.9 x 49.8 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Hat, Lady and Little Table (Hut, Dame und Tischchen) 1932 Gouache and watercolor on plaster-primed burlap, mounted on board, 63.5 x 35.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Red Balloon (Roter Ballon) 1922 Oil on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 31.8 × 31.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Paul Klee’s persistent shifts in style, technique, and subject matter indicate a deliberate and highly playful evasion of…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Signal of Distress 1890–1896 Oil on canvas, 62 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Following a period spent on the English North Coast, Winslow Homer returned to the United States and settled on the equally cold and inhospitable…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 1835 Oil on canvas, 92 x 123.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fire consumed London’s famous Houses of Parliament on the night of…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Étude pour “Une baignade à Asnières” (Study for “Bathers at Asnières”) c.1883–1884 Oil on wood panel, 32 x 41 x 5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Seurat’s approach to painting differed greatly from the Impressionist painters who…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1858 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 32.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine au miroir, La Madeleine pénitente (Magdalene at a Mirror, The Repentant Magdalen) c.1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 113 × 92.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington According to the tenets of the 17th–century Catholic church, Mary…
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Violon et palette (Violin and palette) 1909 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 42.8 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York When Georges Braque abandoned a bright Fauve palette and traditional perspective in 1908, it was the inspiration of Paul Cézanne’s geometrized…