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The painting, exhibited in the 'Cubist room', was submitted with the title Nu descendant un escalier, [19] was listed in the catalogue (no. 241) with the French title. [20] A postcard printed for the occasion showed the painting for the first time with the English translation Nude Descending a Staircase. [21]
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The painting is one of the few Caillebotte works that have remained in public view since the artist's death in 1894. [3] Caillebotte created many paintings showing urban Paris from unexpected perspectives, such as a streetscape seen from indoors in Jeune homme à la fenêtre (1875), or the exaggerated perspective of Rue de Paris, temps de pluie ...
The theme of the architectonic group of figures to the left in Doux Pays is echoed by Seurat; where Puvis shows a half-pedimental group in one plane, Seurat uses recession, and suggests association by means of repetition. The two paintings also share the technique of dividing their large canvases into areas of predominant colours—of blue and ...
Henri Matisse, 1916-17, Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model), oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.jpg 839 × 1,271; 223 KB Henri Matisse, 1916-17, Nu (Lorette allongée sur fond rouge, Sleeping Nude on a Red Background), oil on canvas, 95 x 196 cm, Private collection.jpg ...
The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , explored new and ...
Paysage marocain (Acanthes), also known as Moroccan Landscape (Acanthus), is an oil painting from 1912 by the French artist Henri Matisse. The painting is signed "Henri Matisse" in the lower left corner and has been in the collection of the Moderna museet in Stockholm since 1917.
French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.Modern France was the main centre for the European art of the Upper Paleolithic, [citation needed] then left many megalithic monuments, and in the Iron Age many of the most impressive finds of early Celtic art.