23 September 2018

Claude Monet. Woman with Parasol turned to the Left (‘Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l'ombrelle tournée vers la gauche’), 1886 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).



Oil on canvas: 131 x 88.7 cm. Plein-air study with Suzanne Hoschedé as the model. Pendant with ‘Woman with Parasol turned to the Right’: here. Photo credit: Jean Louis Mazieres. 

Visit > Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
More > Claude Monet at Wikipedia.

15 September 2018

9 September 2018

Chaïm Soutine. The Beef (‘Le Boeuf’/ ‘De geslachte os’), 1926 (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam).


Oil on canvas: 210 x 125 cm. Other versions at: Musée de Grenoble, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery Moscow. Inspired by and referring to Rembrandt’s ‘Slaughtered Ox’ at the Louvre.

Visit > Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
More > Chaïm Soutine at Wikipedia.

5 September 2018