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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl.It is housed in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life.
The painting shows a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky sea shore, with her head turned to gaze backward over her shoulder towards the viewer. Waves are breaking in the background. The Pearl and the Wave was the subject of contemporary curiosity. [1] The painting was met with praise from art critics for its technique and distinguishing ...
An auctioneer found the painting stored in an attic during a visit to a private estate in Camden, Maine. ... Labeled as Portrait of a Girl, the piece sold for $1.4 million in an auction.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Daughters of Catulle Mendès: 1888: 61.9 cm × 129.9 cm (24.4 in × 51.1 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York [36] Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (French: Jeune fille au ruban bleu) 1888: 55 cm × 46 cm (22 in × 18 in) Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France Girl with Spikes
A Girl with a Watering Can is an 1876 Impressionist oil painting on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The work was apparently painted in Claude Monet's famous garden at Argenteuil, and may portray one of the girls in Renoir's neighborhood in a blue dress holding a watering can. [1] The painting is in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C..
La Parisienne (English: The Parisian) is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.The work, which was one of seven presented by Renoir at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, is often referred to as The Blue Lady (French: La Dame en Bleu) and is one of the centre-pieces of the National Museum's art ...
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