Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Vincent van Gogh - Cineraria [1885]
![Vincent van Gogh - Cineraria [1885]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48994735446_d9143cdece_b.jpg)
In March 1886 Vincent van Gogh went to live in Paris with his brother, an art dealer. Theo told him that his paintings were too dark and that he had to cater to the taste of possible buyers. This led to the creation of several paintings of flowers and plants, among them this rather stiff cineraria. It’s still not very colourful.
[Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam - Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 45.5 cm]
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Claude Monet - Près Monte-Carlo [1983]
![Claude Monet - Près Monte-Carlo [1983]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48994192608_72f3f71d27_b.jpg)
Monet was fascinated with light and colour throughout his career and Près Monte Carlo exemplifies how his unconventional coloration captures the viewer. The work is primarily comprised of blue and green hues that are common in a seaside landscape. Yet, Monet magnificently employs yellow and pink tones that hold the eye of the viewer and convey the dazzling light of this Mediterranean region. Renoir was also stimulated by the Mediterranean, and painted Paysage près de Menton where he also tried to capture the unique light of the region.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 65.6 x 82 cm]
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Camille Pissarro - Primrose Hill, London [1890-92]
![Camille Pissarro - Primrose Hill, London [1890-92]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48994941712_99edc3ff1e_b.jpg)
Camille Pissarro arrived in London in late May of 1890, his first trip to the British capital since 1871. He would remain there for a little over a month, primarily to visit with his son Georges and tour the vast array of museums. During this late springtime sojourn he began six canvases depicting the visual pleasures of the city, from bridges over the Thames to various parks and gardens with hints of the urban landscape in the distance. “One doesn’t have a minute to oneself” he wrote to his wife during this trip. “There are museums upon museums to visit, there’s plenty to occupy the person who wishes to study here. The parks are stunning in summer, one can work there without being bothered, and the countryside around London is stunning too.”
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm]
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Marcel Dyf - Moulin Rouge, Paris [1955]
![Marcel Dyf - Moulin Rouge, Paris [1955]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48999919312_b39bf7bebf_b.jpg)
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 55 cm]
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Paul Cézanne - Nature morte de pêches et poires [1885-87]
![Paul Cézanne - Nature morte de pêches et poires [1885-87]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48999174728_6dba2d0a93_b.jpg)
[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 38 x 46.3 cm]
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Frank Myers Boggs - Moulin de la Galette
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm]
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Alex Katz - Alex, Ada and Vincent [1961]
![Alex Katz - Alex, Ada and Vincent [1961]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49005149386_995051dcb5_b.jpg)
Painted in 1961, Alex, Ada and Vincent is one of the most important paintings of Alex Katz’s career, as it features two of his most important and long-standing subjects. In this monumental self-portrait, the artist is accompanied by his wife, Ada, and his young son, Vincent, who makes his pictorial debut. Despite their radically simplified portrayal, the figures nevertheless display a remarkably animated sense of life, striding toward the viewer as they leave the pictorial realm behind. The lush vegetation that surrounds them, rendered in energetic green brushstrokes, seems to emanate outward beyond the perimeters of the picture plane.
[Christie’s, New York - Oil on linen, 213.4 x 188 cm]
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Camille Corot - The Gypsy [c.1865]
![Camille Corot - The Gypsy [c.1865]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49004612988_52d878aa09_b.jpg)
This is an outstanding example of the classical spirit and poetry of Corot’s finest figural paintings. Even though Corot himself stated that he had ‘but one aim in life and that is to paint landscapes,' he considered the figure paintings to be his most intimate works and kept the majority of them in his studio in his personal collection. Reverie becomes a leitmotif in Corot’s figure paintings, and it perhaps reveals more about the artist’s character than the landscapes. Although generous and jovial to those who knew him, the pensive expressions of Corot’s figure paintings suggest a more sensitive and melancholy soul.
[Christie’s. New York - Oil on canvas, 58.1 x 42.6 cm]
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Tamara de Lempicka - The Gypsy (La bohémienne) [c.1923]
![Tamara de Lempicka - The Gypsy (La bohémienne) [c.1923]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49005156966_0e50a6cfb8_b.jpg)
[Christie’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm]
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Pekka Halonen - Pioneers in Karelia [1900]
![Pekka Halonen - Pioneers in Karelia [1900]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49011021498_e3ba489b2f_b.jpg)
Pekka Halonen’s artistic goals were closely related to those of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Whenever Halonen depicted working life, it was done with an emphasis on calm and balance. As for Pioneers in Karelia, his response to those criticising its restful Sunday mood was that the Finnish peasant is not a slave but an independent, intelligent worker who does not need to exert undue effort to do his work. He also emphasised that he had been aiming for a decorative general impression.
[Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki - Oil on canvas, 200 x 237 cm]
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Edouard-Léon Cortès - Port Breton [1966]
![Edouard-Léon Cortès - Port Breton [1966]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49011768432_42c29d15ea_b.jpg)
[Heritage Auctions - Oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm]
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Walter Ernest Webster - The Play is Ended
[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm]
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Michaelina Wautier - Young Man Smoking a Pipe
Formerly attributed to Judith Leyster, this work testifies instead to the consummate skill of another exceptional female painter of the seventeenth century, Michaelina Wautier (Mons, 1604 - Brussels, c.1689) an artist whose oeuvre has only recently begun to receive the attention it so rightly deserves. Though not a portrait, this smoking young boy portrayed in three-quarter profile was no doubt painted from a live model. The thin wisp of smoke emanating from the boy’s slightly open lips, the fleeting ember of his pipe and his transfixed, somewhat melancholic expression all suggest that the painting might have been intended as an allegory of the transience and vanity of human existence.
[Christie’s. New York - Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 58.6 cm]
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Theresa Bernstein - Milliners [c.1919]
![Theresa Bernstein - Milliners [c.1919]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49017414946_af9b44ea45_b.jpg)
Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz (Kraków, March 1, 1890 - New York, February 13, 2002) was a Polish-born American artist, painter, and writer.
[Debra Force Fine Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 127.6 cm]
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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