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Girl in a Chemise is the portrait of a girl wearing a white chemise. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 72.7 cm x 60 cm and is signed and dated Picasso '05' on the lower left corner. The date of the painting remains unclear as Picasso's art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler disputed the date in a letter to the Tate Gallery in 1953. Art ...
The girl's short hair is inspired by the Titus cut (French: coiffure à la Titus), [2] popular in France at the time and based on the hairstyle of the Roman era. [3] In fact, the work is one of the first paintings to depict this hairstyle. [4] The style may have taken its name from Titus Junius Brutus, son of the Roman politician Lucius Junius ...
Equestrian Portrait of Maria Amalia of Saxony; American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) Amrita Sher-Gil Self Portrait (1931) Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 7 (1930) Portrait of My Wife, the Painter Anna Ancher; Antea (Parmigianino) Arab Woman (watercolor) L'Arlésienne (painting) Portrait of the Artist's Mother (Van Gogh)
Portrait of Lola Montez, 1847. Lola Montez, mistress of Ludwig I and ultimately the reason for his abdication, was the penultimate subject for Stieler's gallery of beauties. Over the next 15 years, Stieler completed 19 other paintings and finished his work with the portraits of Lola Montez and Maria Dietsch. Cosmetic corrections were made to ...
The painting presents a young girl sitting in a chair. In her left hand she holds a book titled "Vie", as her hands touch the armrests of her chair. The face, hair and clothes of the girl have a strong geometry, highlighting the contours and details. Behind the chair is a monkey who plays with the hair of the girl.
Young Girls is a portrait painting in oil on canvas, which measures 164 cm × 133 cm (65 in × 52 in). [6] Set in an affluent home, it depicts two similarly aged women sat on chairs in close proximity. [4] [7] The dark woman, modelled by Sher-Gil's sister Indira, is positioned upright and appears to have a smirk.
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The painting along with dozens of other artwork stolen by the Nazis was later acquired by Emil Georg Bührle, a Swiss industrialist, art collector of German origin and CEO of the armaments company Oerlikon, a wartime supplier of the German military. [3] The painting remains part of the E.G. Bührle Collection in Zürich.