Zhang Daqian: Peony Scroll

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Childe Hassam: West Indian Girl

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Peder Mork Mönsted: Winter Landscape, Odnes-Valdres

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Camille Pissarro: Rue des Roches au Valhermeil

“The critic J.-K. Huysmans praised Pissarro’s approach, stating: ‘From close up [the painting] is like brickwork, a strange wrinkled [patchwork], a stew of colours of all kinds covering the canvas with lilac, Naples yellow, madder-red, and green; at a distance, it is the air that moves, it is the sky that is boundless, it is…

Vincent Van Gogh: First Steps, After Millet

“In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies “translations” akin to a musician’s interpretation of a composer’s work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother,…

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64 No. 2

Autour d’un point is the most developed of a series of closely related works which culminated in an eponymous oil painting, now in the collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. “In this early study, the brushwork and color as well as a slight blurring of the edges create a living,…

Vincent Van Gogh: Une liseuse de romans

“Van Gogh painted the canvas in mid-November, during the fourth week of Gauguin’s stay at Arles. A period of bad weather had descended upon the region, and the two painters were forced to work indoors. On November 10th, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “We are having wind and rain here, and I am…

Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat Fields With Reaper (1890)

“Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of Paris where he lived the last two months of his life. He painted many views of these fields, including this landscape with a reaper cutting the golden grain while the stacked sheaves recede toward a village…

Kuijken Quartet: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor (Haydn)

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Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1

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A Kiss and a Concerto

I never tire of the pure joy surrounding this whole group of talented musicians. Isserlis is a masterful performer – a treat! Do you see the magnificent mural on the wall behind the orchestra?  Read more about the mural in Edvard Munch and The Suns  🙂 Gustav Klimt and ‘The Kiss’   “Truth is like…