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“I am kissing you now — across The gap of a thousand years.” ― Marina Tsvetaeva, 1916. Jules Louis Machard, Jeune femme en tenue de soirée assise près des hortensias,...
Little is known about the artistic education of the Austrian painter Otto Friedrich (1862—1937), as the first mention of the artist relates the gold medal that he won in...
Sir Frank Dicksee’s (1853—1928) popularity as a portrait painter coincided with a financial boom in the Edwardian era and a desire by the wealthy elite to represent...
During World War II, Gustav Klimt’s “Water Serpents II” (1862—1918) was stolen by the Nazis, and more recently, it has been the centre of a controversy surrounding its...
In fact, “The Bouquet” originally featured the dog, which was painted out and substituted for the roses early on and possibly by another hand, possibly at the behest of...
Although known primarily as a painter of rural life, George Clausen (1852—1944) produced portraits throughout his career. In the present painting, the figure has not...
The varied work of Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872—1967) makes him an unclassifiable artist. From history painting to the softness of female subjects, his artistic...
French painter Jacques Joseph Tissot or James Tissot (1836—1902) grew up in a household attuned to fashion. His portraits, which he painted throughout most of his...
“L’Ambitieuse” (A Woman of Ambition) belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot (1836—1902) executed between 1883 and 1885. The series, entitled...
Born in Paris in 1856, Édouard Bisson (1856—1945) studied art under one of the most successful of French artists, Jean-Léon Gérôme. He always saw himself as a painter of...
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust. Henry Ryland, Almond Blossom, c. 1890,...
Édouard Bisson’s (1856—1945) work focused on elevating a stylized form of feminine beauty during the Fin de Siècle. He exhibited regularly at the Salon of French Artists...
In 1880’s James Tissot (1836—1902) returned from United Kingdom to France , where he resumed his position as a Parisian society painter. He became famous as a genre...
Austrian artist Maximilian Lenz (1860—1948) studied with Gustav Klimt at the Kunstgewerbeschule, and in 1897 was a co-founder of the Vienna Secession. The Secessionists...
Alexandre Benois (1870—1960) was a painter, Russian theatre art director and ballet librettist who with Léon Bakst and Serge Diaghilev cofounded the influential magazine...
In 1895 the annual exhibition of the Société national des Beaux-Arts, held at the Palais du Champ-de-Mars in Paris from April to the end of June, included seven...
Henri Le Sidaner (1862—1939) developed his distinctive visual language in Paris during the 1890s under the influence of Symbolism. The fin-de-siècle mood of Maurice...
“The poetry of my works is the poetry of loneliness, the quest for happiness and spiritual repose.” — Mikhail Nesterov. Mikhail Nesterov, Evening Solitude on Volga,...
The Call of the Sun, painted by the Russian artist-archaeologist Nicholas Roerich (1874—1947) in 1919, embodies this exhilarating tension. It depicts a group of ancient...
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