Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954): Interior, Nice, 1919 (Oil on canvas, The Barnes Foundation) - Matisse crafts a scene of a sensuous woman reading while seated in a comfortable, light-filled interior setting that provides a lovely, intimate view of the early 20th century décor. A sense of intimacy…
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920): The Cellist, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Artist Kurt Stoermer admired the painting’s “extremely subtle technique,” which, through an artistic differentiation of colours, allowed the musician to merge into his instrument and showed him in a curious state of reverie……
Diego Rivera (1886-1957): Portrait of Two Women (wife Angelina Beloff and friend Dolores Bastian), 1914 (Oil on canvas, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas) - In 1913, his first Cubist works were shown at the Salon, demonstrating a much brighter palette and bolder paintwork than that of…