Category: Old Masters

Claude Monet's 'Le bassin aux nymphéas' fetched USD 74,010,000 during an exceptional evening sale at Christie's New York, 9 November 2023. Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) Le bassin aux nymphéas stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower right); stamped again with signature ‘Claude Monet’ (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse) oil on canvas 100.1 x 200.6 ...

The Scream — One of the world’s most famous artworks, a universal symbol of anxiety and it even has its own emoji. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) The Scream unsigned oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard 91 × 73.5 cm. (36 × 28.9 in.) painted in 1910? Collection of Munch Museum Munch's challenge in this painting is to depict a deafening ...

Gaston Roullet (France, 1847-1925) Village de Dong Ba, faubourg de Hue (Annam - 1885) signed 'Gaston Roullet' and titled (lower left) oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.) Painted in 1885 Gaston Roullet, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885, was the first official Navy ...

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (France, 1824–1898) Jeune noir à l'épée (Young black boy with a sword) oil on canvas 105 x 73 cm. (41.3 x 28.7 in.) Painted in 1850 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France In Jeune Noir à l'épée (Young Black Man with Sword), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, then barely twenty-six, overturns aesthetic ...

Odilon Redon (France, 1840–1916) Le Bouddha (The Buddha) pastel on beige paper 90 x 73 cm. (35 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.) Painted around 1906–1907 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France From the 1890s, at the invitation of his friend Armand Clavaud, Odilon Redon developed a passion for botany, Hinduism and Buddhism. He devoured Paul ...

Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italy, 1483–1520) Madonna Bridgeland (The Bridgewater Madonna) oil on canvas 81 × 55 cm. (32 × 22 in.) Painted c. 1507 - 1508 Collection of Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh LIGHT-DARK IN THE BRIDGEWATER A Chiaroscuro Masterpiece by Raffaello When did artists first use light-dark technique in painting? In Art 101 courses, this ...

Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 73.71 × 82.47 cm. (29.02 × 32.47 in.) Painted in 1844 Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art, America Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 392 × 496 cm. (154 × 195 ...

Jean Fouquet (France, c. 1420–1481) Pietà de Nouans-les-Fontaines oil on canvas 168 × 259 cm. Painted towards 1460-1465 Called Pietà when it's actually the moment when Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lay Christ's body on the Virgin's lap. Fouquet's largest painting (168 × 259 cm), yet little known to the general public, this is a work ...

Marie Bashkirtseva (Russia, 1858–1884) Un meeting (A meeting) oil on canvas 193 x 177 cm. (75.9 x 69.6 in.) Painted in 1884 Collection of Musée d'Orsay At the end of the 19th century, women could cultivate themselves, admire and copy works of art, but were deemed incapable of creating. And in the French capital, the ...

John Peter Russell (Australia, 1858–1930) Fils du peintre jouant avec un crabe oil on canvas Painted c. 1904 - 1906 Collection of Musée des Beaux-arts de Morlaix In the late summer of 1886, on a windswept clifftop in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, John Peter Russell called out to Monet, "the Prince of the Impressionists", whose canvas on the ...