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La plage de Trouville (1863)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on panel, 25.4 x 46.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)

La plage de Trouville (1870)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Monet spent the summer of 1870 at Trouville, the popular French resort along the English Channel. This…

L’Europe après la pluie (1940-1942)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) L’Europe après la pluie (Europe after the Rain II) 1940–1942 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 147.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Ernst began this work in occupied France during World War II. He finished it in New York…

La nuit

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La nuit (The Night) s.d. Oil on canvas, 61 × 46 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford The Night (Act 2, Scene 4: Balcony Scene) from “Romeo and Juliet“. See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Celebes (1921)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…

Gala Éluard (1924)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Gala Éluard 1924 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This evocative portrait reveals the deeply intertwined personal and artistic lives of members of the Surrealist circle and depicts the movement’s fascination…

Self-Portrait (1911)

Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Egon Schiele‘s career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight,…

Lago con cigni (1908)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Lago con cigni (Lake with Swans) 1908 Color etching, inked à la poupée, on wove paper, 21 × 30.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Mia madre che lavora (1907)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Mia madre che lavora (My Mother Working) 1907 Drypoint printed in black on wove paper, 36.2 × 31 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Boccioni, Cecilia Forlani (?)