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1953. Type. Paper-cut. Dimensions. 13.84 cm × 10.33 cm (5.4 in × 4.1 in) Location. New York, Museum of Modern Art. The Boat (French: Le Bateau) is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life.
New York City in the intended orientation (🔝) In 1941 unfinished version of New York City, a 1942 oil by Piet Mondrian, was hung upside-down at 1945 at the MOMA of New York and since 1980 at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. [1][2][3][4] After the mistake was discovered in 2022, the painting's orientation was not corrected, to avoid ...
Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a 100-line verse- poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [ 1 ] It is considered a masterpiece of French Symbolism.
A Bateau Mouche on the Seine near Pont Neuf Bateau Mouche seats. Bateaux Mouches (French pronunciation: [bato muʃ]) are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the city from along the river Seine. [1] They also operate on Parisian canals such as Canal Saint-Martin, which is partially subterranean.
The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.
The Diccionario de la lengua española[a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the ...
Sails. Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (Spanish: "Our Lady of the (Immaculate) Conception") was a 120-ton Spanish galleon that sailed the Peru – Panama trading route during the 16th century. This ship has earned a place in maritime history not only by virtue of being Sir Francis Drake 's most famous prize, but also because of her colourful ...
Pirogue. Group of pirogues at sunset on the river bank of Don Tati, Si Phan Don, Laos. A pirogue (/ pɪˈroʊɡ / or / ˈpiːroʊɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which comes from the Carib piraua.