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This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…
Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…
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…
The Unité d'habitation of Nantes-Rezé is an apartment building located in Rezé, a suburb of Nantes, France designed by Le Corbusier. Lucien Hervé photographed the building, as he did many buildings…
Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
The rape of Europa is a story from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduces the princess Europa and, taking the form of a bull, carries her on his back to the Mediterranean island of Crete. The…
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…
The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
For a long time, Slimsohn had been saving considerable time and money on food. He had started by limiting himself to just one meal a day, towards evening, then delaying it until that undefinable…
Once upon a time, in the “good old days”—some ten or twenty years ago, let’s say—the people in Shklov still did not know what newspapers really were like. Their sole source of news was a solitary…