Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat)

~~MATISSE’S PORTRAIT OF 1913, the last of a series of pictures that he made using his wife Amélie as his model, is one of those images that generate stories...

We have seen the analogy Matisse made between artistic and genetic creation, and it should be no surprise that his principal field of inscription for this analogy was his own family. Although the drawing of his mother that prompted the...

Camille Pissarro’s Two Young Peasant Women (fig. 20) was first shown to the public in late January 1892. It was part of a wide-ranging exhibition of Pissarro’s past and recent work – the kind we would now call a retrospective – put on at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, in a fashionable shopping street just off the boulevard des Italiens. The catalogue for the show invited the visitor to look at Pissarro’s paintings chronologically, or with a sense of how paintings done in the previous few months …