Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans c.1876–1878 Oil on canvas, 194 x 93 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam A standing young woman, full-length, in profile to the right. One of several paintings of standing women titled “Arrangement…”…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le matin (Morning) s.d. Wood engraving on chine collé, 15 x 22 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From the series, “Four Times of the Day” (1830–1875). Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Matin, d’après Millet 1890 Hermitage…
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) L’Angelo dell’Annunciazione (The Angel of the Annunciation) c.1330 Tempera on poplar panel, 29.5 x 20.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This small, rich panel was originally the left side of a diptych, which, along with a right-hand panel…
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) Small Worlds IV (Kleine Welten IV) 1922 Lithograph, 26.6 x 25.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Small Worlds IV (Kleine Welten IV) from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten) Published in 1922, shortly after Vasily Kandinsky began teaching at…
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) Landscape with Two Poplars 1912 Oil on canvas, 78.8 × 100.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) Painting with Green Center 1913 Oil on canvas, 108.9 × 118.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le Repas des enfants (The Children’s Meal) 1895 Oil on paperboard, mounted on wood panel, 59.4 × 74.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Brown and Silver I 1951 Enamel and silver paint on canvas, 144.7 x 107.9 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, VEGAP, Madrid Jackson Pollock, one of the foremost practitioners of Action Painting, began to work on his…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Self-Portrait 1942 Pen, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper, 62.23 x 45.72 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Fleur coquillage (Flower-Shell) 1927 Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid The present Flower-Shell belongs to a set of canvases on the same theme executed between 1927 and 1929, when Max Ernst was…