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Henri Rousseau - In Celebration of the Child [1903]
![Henri Rousseau - In Celebration of the Child [1903]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/628/22168686571_41f43eb890_o.jpg)
[Winterthur Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm]
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Margaret Preston - Implement Blue [1927]
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Margaret Preston (Port Adelaide, April 29, 1875 - Mosman, May 28, 1963) was an Australian artist. Preston's emergence as one of the most powerful exponents of Australian Modernism in the 1920s is inextricably linked to her extensive travels and studies in Europe between 1904 and 1907. These experiences and resulting artistic revelations would colour Preston's practice, her critical thinking and theorising for the remainder of her life. Despite a deep self-confidence in her artistic talent, she was keen to travel abroad for finishing lessons, wanting to see how her work measured up in an international context. Following her mother Prudence's death in 1903, Preston travelled with student Bessie Davidson to Europe where they stayed until 1907, studying in Munich and Paris, and travelling in Italy, Africa, Spain and Holland.
[Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney - Oil on canvas on hardboard, 42.5 x 43 cm]
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John Constable - Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead [1822]
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Among the aspects of Jacob van Ruisdael's work that interested Constable was the Dutch painter's frequent use of a low horizon line. In 1819, Constable measured the proportion of land to sky in several Dutch landscapes in a London exhibition. In this view of Hampstead Heath, the main subject is the sky and its looming storm clouds. Unlike Ruisdael's sweeping, panoramic compositions, Constable here has chosen to emphasize the rising, mound-like shape of the land.
[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 30.8 x 51.1 cm]
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Claude Monet - The Road to Epinay, Snow Effect (Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige) [1875]
![Claude Monet - The Road to Epinay, Snow Effect (Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige) [1875]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/676/21997679158_ea949efe2a_o.jpg)
Resplendent with the glimmer and frosty sheen of snow and ice, Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige, painted in 1875, depicts the trodden road leading into the town of Épinay-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. This picture dates from the height of Monet's involvement with the Impressionist group in Paris, when the artist was considered the premier landscape painter among the group. The present work may have been included in the historic second group showing of the Impressionists in 1876, as both it and a picture currently in the collection of the Albright-Knox Gallery match the description of one listed in the 1876 catalogue.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 24 x 99.5 cm]
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John Peter Russell - Vincent van Gogh [1886]
![John Peter Russell - Vincent van Gogh [1886]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5816/22025021430_b48f2e3407_o.jpg)
John Peter Russell (Australian, 1858 - 1930) got to know Vincent at Fernand Cormon’s studio. He painted this portrait of his friend in 1886 in a conventional, realistic style. It is clearly influenced by photography, although the face and the hand still show Impressionist touches. The portrait was not so dark originally. Another artist, Archibald Standish Hartrick, met Van Gogh at Russell’s studio. He later recalled: ‘[Russell] had just completed that portrait of him in a striped blue suit.’ You can indeed just make out a few little blue stripes at the lower edge of the painting. Analysis has revealed, moreover, that the words ‘Vincent, in friendship’ were painted in red over Van Gogh’s head. In Hartrick’s view, this was the most accurate portrait of Van Gogh – more realistic than the likenesses done by other artists or any of Vincent’s self-portraits. Van Gogh was very attached to it. Years later, he wrote to Theo: ‘take good care of my portrait by Russell, which means a lot to me.
[Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 60.1 cm x 45.6 cm]
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Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait as a Painter [1887-88]
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Van Gogh presents himself as a painter in this self-portrait, holding a palette and seven paintbrushes behind his easel. The style and use of colour tell us that he saw himself as a modern artist. He was apparently pleased with the result, as he signed the work in a prominent place. We see the colours red, yellow, blue, orange, purple and green on the palette – precisely the tones he used for the painting. He worked with contrasting colours, laid down side by side to intensify one another: the blue of his smock, for instance, and the orange-red of his beard.
Self-Portrait as a Painter was the last work Van Gogh produced in Paris. The city had exhausted him both mentally and physically. He told his sister Wil how he had portrayed himself: ‘wrinkles in forehead and around the mouth, stiffly wooden, a very red beard, quite unkempt and sad’. Shortly afterwards, he set off full of hope in search of new and inspiring surroundings in the South of France.
[Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 65.1 cm x 50 cm]
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Richard Hart - Mercy and the Meridian [2012]
![Richard Hart - Mercy and the Meridian [2012]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/625/22250475101_726ce51681_o.png)
Richard Hart is a designer, illustrator, type nut and, most recently, a weekend artist. He is happiest when he’s making. His output includes posters, publications, flyers, packaging, furniture, interiors, exhibition design, painting, sculpture and a few objects that are less easily described. He has also produced a handful of musical compositions that have been described by his wife as “truly unlistenable.” As an artist, Hart has held solo exhibitions in Cape Town, Durban and Berlin.
[Baang and Burne, New York City - Oil on fibreglass, timber and polystyrene panel, 57.2 × 94 cm]
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Marwa Najjar - Sliver Sky [2014]
![Marwa Najjar - Sliver Sky [2014]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5826/22052030090_f46a29571f_o.png)
Marwa Najjar (born Amman, Jordan, 1984) is inspired by the female form, the work of Gustav Klimt as well as a hint of the byzantine influence that made into way into the religious art of Western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, in part through the use of gold leaf. Najjar is no slave to realism. She’s interested in what she calls the “bizarre.”
[Q0DE, Amman, Jordan - Oil and silver leaf on canvas, 50 × 70 cm]
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Charles Sheeler - American Interior [1934]
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Charles Sheeler (American, 1883 - 1965) based American Interior on a photograph, which he had taken from above, of the living room of his former home in South Salem, New York. He designed the painting with the eye of a photographer, using a cropped composition, an oblique view, precise contours, and contrasts of light and dark. He interwove this modernist vision with his response to the purity of forms and patterns in handmade objects from the American past, such as the simple Shaker designs in the box, textiles, and chair.
[Yale University Art Gallery - Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 76.8 cm]
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - Another Marguerite! [1892]
![Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - Another Marguerite! [1892]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/632/22078988318_063aff8da8_o.jpg)
[Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis - Oil on canvas, 51.25 x 78.75 inches]
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Romualdo Locatelli - Balinese Girl [1939]
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Romualdo Locatelli (1905 - 1943), a painter, was born in Bergamo, in Northern Italy. At the age of twenty he first exhibited and began to receive critical recognition. He made a study trip to Tunisia in 1927, followed by trips to Sardinia, Tuscany and the Veneto. Locatelli disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Rizal forest near Manila on February 23, 1943, after making a number of remarkable works in the Philippines including a presidential portrait. Prior to his death as many as 75 of his works were destroyed by the Japanese firebombing of Manila.
[Bonhams - Oil on canvas, 155 x 117.5cm]
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Émile Bernard - Mother and Child
By the middle of 1894 Bernard married his wife, Hanenah. Hanenah's elegant arched brows and bow shaped lips feature prominently in several of the artist's works and the figure in this painting can hardly be of another woman. Hanenah and Bernard had five children together, although only two survived infancy. Years later the two split ways after Bernard fell in love with Andrée Fort, with whom he also had a child.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 38.3 x 46.3 cm]
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Pablo Picasso - Children in the Luxembourg Gardens [1901]
![Pablo Picasso - Children in the Luxembourg Gardens [1901]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/732/22110745409_c3eee58043_o.jpg)
Painted in the spring of 1901, the present composition depicts one of the spectacles of urban life that Picasso found so fascinating during his second trip to Paris. The artist spent his days exploring the capital, visiting the Louvre and galleries of the rue Laffitte and frequenting the cafés, dance halls and brothels that featured in many of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec. Even in his paintings of traditional themes like still-lifes and mothers and children, Picasso favoured a palette and a technique that capture the energy and dazzle of this exciting chapter in his life. The scene here depicts children and their caretakers amidst the open-air splendour of the Luxembourg Gardens in spring. The composition is dominated by tones of blue and green, a palette that is often associated with Picasso’s emotional state following the death of his friend Casagemas earlier in the year. The present composition, however, depicts a convivial scene from the dawn of the artist’s famed Blue Period and is among the important pictures that helped establish Picasso as a leader among the avant-garde.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on paper laid down on cradled panel, 32.2 x 40.2 cm]
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Alexander Goudie - Reclining Nude by the Window
Alexander Goudie (Paisley, November 11, 1933 - March 9, 2004) was a Scottish figurative painter. As draughtsman and colourist, he drew inspiration from a broad range of subjects. In his studio in Glasgow he worked painting portraits of society figures one day and immortalising the labouring Breton peasant the next.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 101.6 cm]
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