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Vincent van Gogh; Bacon painted several variations of van Gogh's The Painter on the Road to Tarascon in the late 1950s. [5] Rembrandt Self-portrait (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence) [6] Chaïm Soutine Céret period (1919–1923), Carcass of Beef (1926) (Minneapolis) [7] John Constable – the full size oil-sketch for The Leaping Horse at the V&A.
Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art.One of the cornerstones of 20th-century modern art.. 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art.
Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) [81] Jet of Water (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomlinson Hill, New York) [81] Second Version of Triptych 1944 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)
It was one of the first paintings by van Gogh to enter a public collection. It was photographed in color in the 1930s, an uncommon and costly practice at the time. [5] [4] During World War II, the collection of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum was transported to a salt mine in the nearby town of Stassfurt, in order to protect it from Allied bombing ...
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
Portrait of Michel Leiris (sometimes Study for Portrait of Michel Leiris) is a 1976 oil-on-canvas-panel painting by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon.It is the first of two portraits Bacon made of his close friend, the French surrealist writer and anthropologist Michel Leiris; [1] the second followed in 1978.
Vincent van Gogh Pietà, after Delacroix (first version), 1889 Oil on canvas, 41,5 x 34 cm, Vatican Collection of Modern Religious Art. The collection consists of almost 800 works by 250 international artists including: Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Émile Bernard, Bernard Buffet, Alice Lok Cahana, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí ...
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho is a 1967 oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English figurative artist Francis Bacon, housed in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Described by art critic John Russell as one of Bacon's finest works, [ 1 ] it depicts Isabel Rawsthorne , the painter, designer and occasional model ...