At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Pierre Bonnard: Bouquet de fleurs

“The still life motif formed an integral part of Bonnard’s œuvre and Bouquet de fleurs is exemplative of the artist’s long-standing exploration of colour. Bonnard applies broad gestural brushstrokes to delineate a profusion of flowers and verdant foliage that rise from a decorative blue vase and infuse the composition with a dynamic ebullience… Through this…

Henry Salem Hubbell: Young Woman With a Toy

“Henry Salem Hubbell is admired for his use of colors, as seen in the vibrant brushstrokes of this figure’s multicolored coat. Hubbell painted many portraits of women elegantly captured in the simple act of pouring tea, lacing a boot, or playing with a toy.” Questroyal Fine Art Hear More Mozart At Sunnyside See More This…

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525

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Titian: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

“Her feet planted firmly on the ground, the Madonna wraps Jesus in a protective embrace at the centre of the canvas. The pair are shown in suspended animation, in an intimate moment of tenderness between mother and son. The latter, somewhat fidgety, leans into his mother, tugging at her hair. Joseph is set slightly apart,…

Frank Cadogan Cowper: Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth

“Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth had appeared at the RA in 1917…one of four pictures he submitted that year, the others being portraits. The First World War still had a year to run, and the picture may make oblique reference to the crisis. The themes of motherhood, fecundity and regeneration, not to…

Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493

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Berthold Woltze: The Irritating Gentleman

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Mikhail Nesterov: The Nightingale is Singing

“…in the delicately observed motif of the nightingale’s song, which seems to come from beyond the bounds of the picture, a theme resonates which was of great significance in Nesterov’s work — the theme of music bringing man and nature into harmony. As we look at this picture, we are reminded of what Vasily Rozanov…

Andre Brasilier: La ronde des cavaliers

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Zhang Daqian: Summer on California Mountain

“In spite of Summer on California Mountain’s imposing, immediate and effortless appearance, such ‘splashed-ink’ paintings were not made quickly, and required the help of his students and family members to dry each layer of colour or wash over a fire, and later with a hair dryer. This painting process was complicated and involved mounting and…

Renoir: Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette

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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

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Frederick Carl Frieseke: Through the Vines

“This painting depicts the artist’s wife, Sarah (nicknamed Sadie), in a boat on the river Epte near Giverny, France. Sadie was also a painter and often chose props for her husband’s compositions and posed as his model. The Friesekes were part of a large group of American artists living in Giverny at the beginning of…

A Little Lebasque, Niemann, and Li

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Dutch National Ballet: Swan Lake

“Love and deception are the keywords in Swan Lake. Siegfried, a young prince with the soul of a poet, meets a white swan, Odette, at the lakeside one night. He promises to be faithful to her and thus also to his ideals. Back in the palace, however, Siegfried allows himself to be seduced by the…

Frederick Carl Frieseke: Foxgloves

“In Foxgloves a woman stand in a garden, enveloped in variegated flowers and verdant foliage. Conveying a romantic parallel between the woman and flowers, he blends her into the background essentially placing a “flower” within the flowers. Frieseke noted, “My one idea is to reproduce flowers in sunlight. I do not suggest detail by form,…

Dame Laura Knight: A Moment’s Rest

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Frederick Carl Frieseke: Blue Curtains

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Harold Knight: Alfred Munnings Reading

“The recent discovery of Harold Knight’s Alfred Munnings Reading…sheds new light on a fascinating moment in the early careers of both artist and sitter. When embarking on her ballet picture, Carnaval…, for reasons that remain obscure, Laura Knight selected a canvas which was stretched on top of a work by her husband, and only when…

Gino Severini: Danse de l’ours

“Abandoning any trace of figuration, the artist depicts the dancing couple in a highly abstract manner, fracturing their bodies in to a series of vibrantly coloured fragments that radiate outwards from the centre of the canvas. Through this dematerialization of form, Severini aimed to create a visual representation of the energy of the performance, moving…

Víkingur Ólafsson: Bach’s Goldberg Variations

“The Goldberg Variations contain some of the most virtuosic keyboard music ever written, some of the most astonishingly brilliant uses of counterpoint in the repertoire and countless instances of exalted poetry, abstract contemplation and deep pathos – all within immaculately shaped structures of formal perfection. In 30 variations, built on the humble harmonic framework of…

Beethoven and Bouguereau’s “Little Shepherdess”

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Vera Danilina: Classical Guitar Concert

Influenced by his contact with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard during the 1890s, Henri Lebasque spent the better part of his career painting the quiet moments of family life. While Vuillard focused his intimiste vision on the domestic interior, a number of Bonnard’s Nabis paintings depict figures outside, and it is Bonnard who seems to…

A Little Monet, A Little Mozart

“The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town of Antibes in the south of France. Monet traveled there in January of 1888 and was dazzled by the light and the striking scenery of the legendary Côte d’Azur (Azure Coast). However, he sometimes struggled with how to represent it…

Schubert: Impromptu F-minor D 935/1

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La Poétesse Meets Rachmaninoff

“The artist’s model for the present work was his wife, Marie Barbaroux. In the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Symbolists, Martin depicts her here in the guise of the poetess Clémence Isaure.” Sotheby’s “As a young man, fresh from his first success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to…

Paul Gauguin: Les Lavandières à Arles II

“Washerwomen in Arles was painted during Gauguin’s sojourn in the French town of Arles, where he had gone to work in the last quarter of 1888, summoned by Van Gogh, who was trying to assemble an artistic group… Outstanding features of this painting are the abstraction of its backgrounds, the impression of movement and photographic…

Aretha Franklin: Let It Be

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Sorolla, Stott, and Yo-Yo Ma

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Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

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