Tag: yellow

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1596)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1596 Oil on copper, 26.6 x 35 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Jan Brueghel belonged to a dynasty of painters whose first outstanding member was Pieter Bruegel, Jan’s…

Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans (c.1876-1878)

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…”…

Femme dans un intérieur (1935)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in an Interior, Madame Hessel at Les Clayes) 1935 Oil on paper, 40.9 x 55.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This intimate work was painted, according to Vuillard’s journal, on Easter morning…

Les Meules jaunes (1889)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Meules jaunes, dit aussi La Moisson blonde (The Yellow Stacks, also known as The Blonde Harvest) 1889 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Moisson en Bretagne c.1889 Private collection    …

Moisson en Bretagne (c.1889)

Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Moisson en Bretagne (Harvest in Brittany) c.1889 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 63.5 cm Private collection Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Meules jaunes 1889 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     See also: • Bretagne (France)

Tête d’homme et nu assis (1964)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Tête d’homme et nu assis (Head of a Man and Seated Nude) 1964 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Produced late in Picasso’s career, many years after the Cubist period that defined…

Sunflowers (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers (F 454, JH 1562) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm National Gallery, London ‘The sunflower is mine’, Van Gogh once declared. Soon after his death he became known as the painter of sunflowers, an…