Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Cezanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

Cezanne, Still Life with Commode

Still Life with Commode
1883-87 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 92.2 cm (28 7/8 x 36 3/8"); Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich; Venturi no. 496

Still Life with Skull (Nature morte au crane) .Cezanne

Still Life with Skull (Nature morte au crane)
1895-1900 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65 cm (21 3/8 x 25 5/8 in); The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania

Still Life with Apples .Cezanne

Still Life with Apples
c. 1890 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 35.2 x 46.2 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/8 in); The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
No. ZKP 558. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil

Claude Monet. Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil. 1880. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Houses of Parliament

The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903–4
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Femmes de Tahiti

Femmes de Tahiti [Sur la plage] (Tahitian Women [On the Beach])
1891 (150 Kb); Oil on canvas, 69 x 91 cm (27 1/8 x 35 7/8 in); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of the Artist with the Idol

Portrait of the Artist with the Idol
c. 1893 (80 Kb); Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 32.7 cm (17 1/4 x 12 7/8 in); McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

The Potato Eaters Vincent van Gogh,

The night café Vincent van Gogh

The night café
1888;

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Four Dancers

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Four Dancers (oil on canvas, 1899)

Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge (oil on canvas, 1899)Art Museum,Princeton University

Allée of Chestnut Trees

Allée of Chestnut TreesAlfred Sisley (English, 1839–1899)
Oil on canvas

Like his colleagues Monet and Pissarro, Sisley lived outside of Paris, where accommodations were more affordable. There he painted tranquil landscapes populated by local villagers and fashionable Parisian vacationers. In this painting, bright sunlight tempered by dappled shade in the foreground exemplifies the Impressionists' attention to light effects. The scene's idyllic ambiance is typical of Sisley's work. Hayashi Tadamasha, a Japanese art collector and dealer living in Paris, was the painting's first owner. In 1913, Mrs. Havemeyer acquired the work for her collection of Impressionist art.