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The most recent renovation was made by Olivier Brochet between 2000 and 2006. The rooms that were previously constructed on two levels were knocked down and natural light was restored to the Water Lillies. [6] In order to display the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection, rooms were dug out of the basement level.
Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (Two Girls in a Yellow and Red Interior) (1947), oil on canvas, 61 x 49.8 cm (24 x 19 5/8 inches) is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania. [1] Albert Barnes became one of Matisse's most important patrons.
The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art. [1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials. [2]
Renoir depicts two young girls at a piano in a bourgeois home, one in a white dress with blue sash seated playing and one in a pink dress standing. Renoir completed three additional versions of this composition in oil for collectors; the Luxembourg version is now housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, [2] the Robert Lehman Collection version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, [3 ...
[4] Sher-Gil's later painting Two Girls would expand on this theme, and her portraits of women close to each other would also become a recurring theme. [4] Dalmia would quote in her book that Rahim's response was that "the picture as a whole is captivating. Nothing betrays the fact that the picture is the work of a girl of 19.
In 1929, at the suggestion of Baktay, the family moved to Paris so that 16-year-old Sher-Gil could study art, first at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and later the Beaux-Arts de Paris. [4] Her mentors included Pierre Henri Vaillant and Lucien Simon. [4] In 1933, she was awarded the Paris Salon's gold medal, for the painting Young Girls. [5]
Like painting and sculpture, Paris has also attracted communities of photographers, and was an important centre for the development of photography; indeed inventor Nicephore Niepce produced the first permanent photograph on a polished pewter plate in Paris in 1825, and then developed the process with Louis Daguerre. [4]
The change of room, the vertical orientation and the addition of a girl on the top balcony to add life to the painting, solved his compositional issues and resulted in the second painting, View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic. He then painted a third where he shrunk the size of the building even more, painted under the same name.