“The present work was originally donated by Henri Le Sidaner to a tombola to raise funds for the establishment of a memorial to his friend, the Belgian painter at the forefront of Luminism Emile Claus. The two met when Claus rented a studio in Paris after 1889 and was introduced to Le Sidaner, prompting a…
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Henri Le Sidaner: Le canal, soleil, Gisors
“Henri Le Sidaner was attracted to oblique and mysterious light, never the harshness of noon. He preferred to paint l’heure bleue of Mediterranean dusk or his own garden at Giverny with sunlight fretted by the leaves of a vine. This painting depicts Gisors, the picturesque, historic capital of the Norman Vexin, about twenty-two miles south-west…
Paul Serusier: Le Battage
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Karla Bonoff: The Water Is Wide
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Yenne Lee: Autumn Leaves
Jeune femme assise jouant de la guitare belongs to a group of works that Renoir painted of women and men playing the guitar. Renoir’s appreciation for “La Belle Otéro,” a dancer at the Folies-Bergère who was celebrated at the time as the embodiment of Spanish seduction, is thought to have inspired these works. Although the…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: L’église à Essoyes
“Although Renoir would keep his rented Parisian apartment throughout his life, from the late 1880s onward, much of his time would be spent in the countryside enjoying the tranquil pleasures the retreat had to offer. Renoir’s middle son, Jean, wrote of their home in the region with great nostalgia, “Essoyes, where my mother and Gabrielle…
Hauser: Postlude #3 by Valentin Silvestrov
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Fuchs: Clarinet Chamber Music
‘”I am still wrapped up in flowers, underwater dramas, among those beings which might exist. Painting, with its limitless resources, is an infinitely enjoyable art. I believe that I can make continual progress with it, right to the end [of my life]. The results I achieve at the moment torment me much less’ (Redon, quoted…
Henri Le Sidaner: Matin doré
“Painted in 1920 Matin doré demonstrates Henri Le Sidaner’s exceptional talent in conveying the optical effects of colour and light. The varying manifestations of light, reflecting on a surface or filtering through the natural environment, was a key preoccupation for the artist throughout his career, so much so that he would advise his students that…
Pissarro: The Father of Impressionism
“Pissarro painted the present scene during the early fall of 1884, when some of the trees retained their green and others were ablaze in red, orange, and gold…The canvas depicts a small wash-house on the banks of the Epte at Bazincourt, where local women could launder their clothes…Unlike Pissarro’s well-known view of the wash-house at…
Eva Cassidy: Time After Time
“Carefully divided into hot and cold-colored areas, the composition is dominated by the undulating lines of the dress, guitar, armchair and cushion that contrast with the verticals of the background. The white dress is shaped by white gradations. Shades of blue and grey suggest the play of shade and light on the garment…” READ FULL…
Louis Valtat and Voices of Music
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Claude Monet: The Steps
“In L’Escalier, Monet has selected as his subject an unprepossessing but utterly charming corner of an old farmyard. The pale stucco walls and steeply slanting, shingled roofs form a shallow succession of jostling planes, with only a narrow strip of cloud-flecked sky visible at the top of the canvas. In compositional terms, L’Escalier is anchored…
Edgar Degas: Femme s’essuyant
“Among the pastels Degas exhibited in the final Impressionist exhibition of 1886 were ten works which marked the debut of his domestic bathers theme—“Suite de nuds [sic] de femmes se baignant, se lavant, se séchant, s’essuyant …” These scenes of the female nude à sa toilette were deemed scandalous; viewers assumed the artist’s models to…
Henri Le Sidaner: L’église, Dolceacqua
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William Adolphe Bouguereau: Fardeau Agréable
“In Fardeau Agréable, as in nearly all of Bouguereau’s work, the industrial age is not evident, no buildings mar the landscape, and no smoke clouds the skies of the imagined Arcadia. Bouguereau raises his figures above the harsh truth of day-to-day existence in the French peasant countryside and exalts the joy and tenderness of youth…
Henri Le Sidaner: Church Street, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Le Sidaner’s career is usually divided into an initial realist period lasting until 1893, followed by a phase linked to Symbolism (1894-1899) and an intimist period in the first years of the 20th century, up until the Great War. In the decade after the conflict, the painter created the most brilliant part of his mature…
Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…
Camille Pissarro: Automne à Eragny
One of the most prominent avant-garde painters of his generation, Pissarro had achieved enormous success as both an Impressionist and a Neo-Impressionist painter. Adjusting certain elements from his classic Impressionist period of the 1870s, and combining them with characteristics of his Neo-Impressionist style of the 1880s, in the early 1890s Pissarro began developing a fresh…
Sérusier and Scarlatti – With Yuja Wang
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James Taylor: Country Road
“Chemin de Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise depicts a sunny day in Pontoise, a bustling market town about twenty-five miles northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived in 1866-1868 and again from 1872-1882. The canvas was painted in 1876, at the apex of Pissarro’s career as an Impressionist landscape painter. Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel have described Pissarro’s work…
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: The Little Goose Girl of Mézy
The Little Goose Girl of Mézy is Léon Lhermitte’s most important single-figure painting, a work that forthrightly declares its modernity in the directness of the young goose girl’s interaction with the viewer and in the slashing knife and brushwork that so tangibly conveys the stubbled grain field on which she stands…With her small bundle of…
Claude Monet: Cabin of the Customs Watch
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Larry Fleet: Where I Find God
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Sérusier and a Folk Song Medley
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Paul Gauguin: Still Lifes
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A Visit to Monet’s Garden
Monet frequently painted outdoors, drawing endless inspiration from the plants, trees, and pond at Giverny. The gardens on his property were the great extravagance of his final years; their upkeep required the services of six full-time gardeners. Monet planted agapanthus—a thin, wispy lily plant native to Africa—along the banks of his pond as well as…
Andre Lhote: L’arbe Rouge
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Handel: As Steals the Morn Upon the Night #1
As steals the morn upon the nightAnd melts the shades away:So Truth does Fancy’s charm dissolveAnd rising Reason puts to flightThe fumes that did the mind involveRestoring intellectual day Hear More Voices of Music At Sunnyside Handel At Sunnyside See More Henri Le Sidaner At Sunnyside Henri Le Sidaner at Christie’s Henri Le Sidaner at Sotheby’s Henri Sidaner at…
Degas’ Deux danseuses en jaune
“By the 1890s, pastel had become his most favoured medium as it allowed him a variety of techniques and, crucially, the chance to build up complex layered colour schemes, as is evident here…This is evident, for instance, in the areas of shadow and light, for instance the turquoise area by the right-hand dancer’s left leg…Degas’…
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