Category: Fine Art

René Magritte (Belgium, 1898–1967) L'Empire des lumières (The Empire of Light) oil on canvas 195.4 x 131.2 cm. Painted in 1954 Collection of Peggy Guggenheim, Venice Don't you find anything strange about this painting? It shows a house at night. The canvas is lit only by two lit windows upstairs and a street lamp, but ...

Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.

Gustave Caillebotte (France, 1848–1894) In A Cafe oil on canvas 153 x 114 cm Painted in 1880 Collection of Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France It was at the fifth Impressionist exhibition that Caillebotte presented this café scene, a painting of modern life. A life-size male figure dominates the scene. It's a model who's been painted ...

Edgar Degas (France, 1834–1917) L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) oil on canvas 92 × 68 cm. (36.2 × 26.8 in.) Painted in 1875–1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Edgar Degas chose as his subject a very popular drink at the end of the 19th century: absinthe. This is how the painting is often ...

Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594–1665) Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) oil on canvas 85 × 121 cm. (34.25 × 47.24 in.) painted in 1637–1638 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Nicolas Poussin – The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style A 17th-century painter, depicts a landscape in Arcadia, a mountainous ...

Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People) oil on canvas 260 × 325 cm. (102.4 × 128.0 in.) painted in 1830 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Eugène Delacroix's "Liberty Guiding the People" leaves the Louvre for restoration In 2019, the Paris museum launched a major restoration campaign for ...

Auguste Rodin (France, 1840–1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) sculpture; Marble 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm. (71.5 × 44.3 × 46 in.) Executed in 1882 Collection of Musée Rodin, Paris, France This couple embracing, this woman abandoning herself, this hand that the man places, barely, like a touch, on the hip of the one he ...

Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italy, 1483–1520) Leone dieci, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici (Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de ‘Rossi’) oil on wood 154 cm × 119 cm (61 in × 47 in) Painted c. 1518-1520 Collection of  Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. I present for your admiration and study the c. 1518, ...

Tran Phuc Duyen (Vietnam, 1923-1993) Les cueilleuses de la moyenne région au tonkin (The Pickers of the Middle Region in Tonkin) signed and inscribed 'TRAN-PHUC-DUYEN ARTISTE-LAQUEUR HANOI VIETNAM 146 AV. DU GRAND BOUDDHA' (on the reverse) lacquer on panel 74.5 × 51 cm. (29 3/8 × 20 1/8 in.) Executed circa 1948 Details of Tran ...

Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) Fleurs (Flowers) signed in Chinese and signed again 'Le pho' (lower left); signed, titled and inscribed 'LE PHO Fleurs WF BH W. F. Findlay' (on the reverse); gallery label affixed (on the reverse) oil on canvas 73 × 92 cm. (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.) Painted circa 1970 Provenance Wally ...