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……
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944): The Sun, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Illuminated by the sunrays are the water of the ocean, the bare rocks of a Northern landscape, and a slim strip of verdant green that separated land and sea. A clean, straight horizon line divides the waters from sky. The great sun…