Félix Edouard Vallotton (Swiss-born French, 1865-1925): La Lecture Abandonnée, 1924 (Oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts) - Although this work is an exception, in his last years Vallotton concentrated especially on still lifes and on “composite landscapes” which were landscapes composed in the…

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954): Breakfast, 1920 (Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art) - Breakfast depicts 19-year-old model Antoinette Arnoux in the artist’s opulently furnished room at the Hôtel de la Méditerranée… Seated, with a book on her lap, Arnoux has a contemplative, self-absorbed…

Chelsea Keefer - Tulsa Ballet, Oklahoma, US. (Photograph by Richard Calmes) - Tulsa Ballet corps member Keefer launched her professional career in 2011 thanks to YAGP. “I’d done YAGP before, mostly to gain experience, but last year I took it very seriously as a job opportunity,” Keefer says. “I…