A művészet mindenhol jelen van, akár a legegyszerűbb dolgokban is. - Szigeti Németh György

Ha szeretnénk gyorsan odaérni valahová, menjünk egyedül. De ha azt szeretnénk, hogy messzire jussunk, menjünk valakivel… - RP története

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 times at Giverny, beginning in early summer 1885, and by the chance to work outdoors during the summers of 1885 and 1886 in the Cotswolds village of Broadway, Worcestershire…

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 Bastien-Lepage with a naturalistic technique…

Linda Evangelista with sculpture for the Chloé Autumn-Winter 1995 campaign - In 1985, Evangelista began working with Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer of the fashion house Chanel. On the subject of Evangelista, Lagerfeld once uttered, “There is not another model in the world as professional as she is.” .  - Photograph by Karl Lagerfeld.

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 studio. The dappled brushstrokes and sun-drenched palette of the present work, and his careful observation of the landscape with the winding Seine beyond, are clearly indicative of the Impressionists’ influence…

A reader in the Caffè della Pace in Rome - Photograph by Fernando Scianna (Italian, 1943-) - “It’s his picture, like a quick, swift organization of reality, a catalyst of objective reality in photographic reality: that almost everything on which his eye rests and rises obeys his goal at that time, neither before nor later, for instant magnetism, his feelings, his will, and - ultimately - to his style.” – Leonardo Sciascia

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 upholder of tradition…

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 light coming through a large window. His handling of the challenging light and shadows is exceptional…

Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1895) - The Lane, c.1893 (Oil on canvas. High Museum of Art) - Robinson spent his last years applying his Monet-inspired impressionism to the American scenery of Vermont and Connecticut. These late American works were favorably received by critics at his first one-man exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery in 1895.

Raoul Dufy in his studio preparing to paint the fresco La Fée Electricité for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris (Photograph by Roger Schall, 1936) - The massive fresco included a great deal of technical innovation, documentary research and solid work - he painted models nude and then in costumes, transferred drawings onto tracing paper in order to work out how to group them, then projected them life-size onto the panels with a magic lantern - ...

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 painting. Through the central doorframe we can see a painting on an easel, identifiable as Cadell’s Interior, Regent Terrace of 1932-33.

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931) - Cléo de Mérode, 1901 (Oil on canvas) – Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966), an international sensation and one of the most photographed woman in the world in her time, was a French ballerina, who achieved fame with her face, not her feet. Cléo was a good dancer but her beauty caught the public’s eye. By 13, she already had posed for Jean-Louis Forain and Edgar Degas, who often sketched her…

Elza Luijendijk with sculpture in “Tough Love” for US Vogue, July 2013. Photograph by Steven Klein - “Passion play. ‘You can really encourage desire,’ confirms one sexual-health expert. Model Elza Luijendijk, in a Dior coatdress and pumps, in New York’s Old Westbury Gardens.”