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An oil painting of Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2023. [1] [2] [3]The painting depicts a smiling Winfrey in a voluminous purple taffeta dress by Christian Siriano, its color referring to her first film role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 version of The Color Purple. [1]
Purple Robe and Anemones (French: Robe violette et Anémones) is a 1937 painting by Henri Matisse [1] featuring a woman wearing a purple robe sitting next to a vase of anemones. The painting is among those purchased by art collector and socialite Etta Cone [ 2 ] and is part of the Cone Collection at Baltimore Museum of Art . [ 3 ]
Woman In A Purple Coat or The Purple Coat is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1937. It depicts Matisse's assistant Lydia Delectorskaya . This painting is an example of Henri Matisse's mature decorative style.
Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) depicts two images in sequence, recorded by a documentary photographer, silk-screened in black ink on a purple ground. [5] According to Tony Shafrazi, Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) is one of the greatest works of Warhol. Shafrazi estimates the painting's value at 70 million dollars. [4]
Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, by Peter Paul Rubens. 28 × 34 cm; oil on panel. Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France. Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye or The Discovery of Purple by Hercules's Dog is an oil painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens painted circa 1636, towards the end of his career.
Valéry compared Manet's painting to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring: "I do not rank anything in Manet's work higher than a certain portrait of Berthe Morisot dated 1872". Manet sold or gave the painting to collector and art critic Théodore Duret. Morisot herself acquired the painting in 1894, paying 5,100 francs in the sale of Duret's ...
Purple haze refers to a state of mind induced by psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD. [86] Wearing purple is a military slang expression in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for an officer who is serving in a joint assignment with another service, such as an Army officer on assignment to the Navy. The officer is symbolically putting aside his or ...
Unfinished Painting is a 1989 painting by American artist Keith Haring. It is a 100 cm by 100 cm acrylic painting on canvas piece, recognizable by the large swath of canvas left exposed. [ 1 ] It is known as one of Haring's final paintings before his 1990 death from AIDS -related complications at the age of 31. [ 2 ]