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This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
“Tanzstudie,” from Hans Brandenburg’s Der moderne Tanz.
Digital Image © Tate, London 2018.
In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
At the house of salonnière Geneviève Straus in Clos des Mûnieres, Trouville, Normandy, 1893. Sitting (from left) are Marcel Proust, Louis Ganderax, and Straus. Standing (from left) are an unidentified…
Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
By the 1920s, the Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor, inspired by cubism and classical and “primitive” art. Her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or bronze…
Chair with Red Matter was painted at a time when Henryk Berlewi was producing figurative art: portraits and still lives inspired by the work of seventeenth-century French artists. By 1957, he had…
