Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889) - Ophelia, 1883 (Oil on canvas)
Egy fűzfa hajlik a patak fölé, Mely szürke lombját visszatükrözi. Ahhoz vivé ő eszelős füzérit: Csalán-, kakukfű-, torma-, kosborát (Ezt pásztorink durvábban nevezik, Holtember-ujjnak szűz leányaink). Ott egy behajló ágra…
Joseph Stella (1877-1946) olasz születésű amerikai festőművész észak-afrikai és barbadosi utazásai során megérzett egy művészi ihletet, hogy trópusi madarakkal és virágokkal foglalkozó festmény sorozatot készítsen. Ezekben az életszerű munkákban, például a „Red Amaryllis” – ban Stella jól elkapja a…
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) - El Sol y la Vida, (Sun and Life), 1947 - - - A Nap életet ad a növényeknek… a növényekben megjelenő női és férfi nemi szervek, mint a teremtés lehetőségei együtt védik a növekvő magzatot. A Nap és a magzat sír… Ez amiatt lehet, hogy egy 18 éves korában…
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) - The Misses Vickers, 1884 (Oil on canvas. Museums Sheffield) – „I am to paint several portraits in the country and three ugly women at Sheffield, dingy hole.” - This group portrait was painted to mark the 21st birthday of Mabel Frances Vickers (centre),…
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) - By the River (also known as Femme en Barque) c.1885-88 (Oil on canvas) - - - With time and creative energy to spare, Sargent spent several summers engaged in Impressionist projects. These were nourished by his contact with Monet, whom he visited several…
Blanche Paymal-Amouroux (French, 1860-1910) - News (Oil on canvas. Museum of Boucher de Perthes, Abbeville) - Paymal-Amouroux was a pupil of Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre and Albert Maignan. She became a member of the Paris Salon in 1896, where she was awarded an honourable mention in 1898.
Tihamér von Margitay (Hungarian, 1859-1922) - Courting in the countryside, 1886 (Oil on canvas) - Margitay studied in Budapest as a student of Gyula Benczúr and in Munich with O.Seitz. He also studied in Venice and Florence. Margitay liked to paint scenes of the middle-class in the style of…
Jean Béraud (French, 1849-1935) - Un Figaro de Rêve (Oil on canvas) - Un Figaro de Rêve was likely produced early in Béraud’s career, between 1872-1885, and vividly relates to the work of the Impressionists in style as well as subject. Béraud was already quite adept at painting outside of the…
Andre Derain (French, 1880-1954) - The Cup of Tea, 1935 (Oil on canvas. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France) - After WW I, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism then ascendant. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an…
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (Irish, 1878-1931) - The Studio, c.1913 (Oil on canvas. Leeds Museums-City Art Gallery) - Orpen was especially known for his penetrating sociopsychological portraits. Orpen’s works are marked by realism, rich color, and free brushwork. Here, he deals with a strong…
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (Scottish, 1883-1937) - Interior, 30 Regent Terrace with Easel (Oil on canvas) - Whilst the brushwork of Interior, 30 Regent Terrace with Easel is elegant in its impressionistic application of paint, Cadell’s quick-witted and playful personality has not escaped the…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) - Rousse dit aussi La Toilette, 1889 (Oil on cardboard. Musée d'Orsay) - The woman fills the centre of the composition and is shown close up, offering the spectator a view of a sculptural back. The wicker chairs around her suggest that the scene took…
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) - Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe, 1885 (Pastel on paper. Dixon Gallery & Gardens) - The dancer leans forward, her head low, a hand clasping her left foot. One looks down on her head and the bare expanse of her neck and upper back. This seated figure, knees spread, with…
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) - An Artist in His Studio, c.1904 (Oil on canvas. MFA, Boston) - Sargent’s friend, the Italian artist Ambrogio Raffele, is deep in contemplation, working on a bucolic landscape. Raffele is using his cramped and untidy hotel room as a studio; he and his…
Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840) - Cairn in Snow, 1807 (Oil on canvas. New Masters Gallery, Dresden) - Caspar David Friedrich was a romantic landscape painter, and was one of the first artists to portray winter landscapes as austere, forbidding and desolate. His winter scenes are solemn…