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Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63 is the title given to a small March 1514 charcoal drawing by the German printmaker and painter Albrecht Dürer, now in the Kupferstichkabinett museum in Berlin. The portrait is a tender but unflinching physical study of his mother, Barbara Holper (c. 1451–1514), completed two months before she ...
Kristallnacht, 1940–42 [7] Charlotte Salomon, gouache from Life? or Theater?, 1940–42 [8]. Charlotte Salomon came from a prosperous Berlin family. Her father, Albert Salomon was a surgeon; [9] her mother, Franziska (Grünwald), sensitive and troubled, committed suicide when Charlotte was eight or nine, though she was led to believe her mother died from influenza.
Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terra-cotta sculptures in the 1960s. [15]Her sculptures, first exhibited in New York in the late 1960s, are often mentioned as some of the first explicit vaginal imagery arising from the women's liberation movement, [15] and they became her signature form which she made in various media, colors and sizes, including large floor installations ...
This is a selection of the public collections of her work: Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, holds the largest public collection of Moses's paintings [30] [31] Brooklyn Museum, New York City [32] Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa [33] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. [34] Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel ...
Van Gogh's introduction to art was through his mother, herself an amateur artist. After years of strained relations with family members, Van Gogh excitedly shared some of his works he thought his mother would appreciate most, of flowers and natural settings. In this painting, Van Gogh captures his mother's dignified and proud nature.
Death and the Child is a composition created by Edvard Munch in 1889. [1] [2] Since 1918 it is located in the Kunsthalle Bremen. It depicts a little girl at her mother’s deathbed who is looking at the viewer in a fearful manner. A second, thus far unknown painting of the artist was discovered underneath the canvas in 2005.
By the end of his career, Moore was the world's most successful living artist at auction. In 1982, four years before his death, Sotheby's in New York sold a 6-foot (1.8 m) Reclining Figure (1945), for $1.2 million to collector Wendell Cherry. Although a first record of $4.1 million was set in 1990, Moore's market slumped during the recession ...
She had continued to create artwork until her death, her last pieces being finished the week before. [31] The New York Times said that her work "shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world". [5] Her husband, Robert Goldwater, died in 1973.