Paintings I love

№ 5787 VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853 - 1890) Still life with a plate of onions early January 1889 Oil on canvas, 49,5 x 64,4 cm The Kröller-Müller Museum •   Van Gogh rents the Yellow House in Arles and invites Paul Gauguin to come and work with him there. But they soon have disagreements. After a heated argument Van Gogh becomes disoriented and cuts off his own left ear. He is admitted to the hospital in Arles and discharged on 7 January 1889. On that day, he writes to his brother Theo that he in...

№ 5763 John William Hill (American (born England), 1812–1879) Plums 1870 Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on off-white Bristol board, 18.1 x 30.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art •   Hill’s conversion in the late 1850s to the aesthetics of John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites was manifested most notably in his still lifes. In 1857 Ruskin wrote enthusiastically about the broken-color, or stipple, watercolor technique used by William Henry (“Bird’s Nest”) Hunt, the British master whose still...

№ 5764 Onions and Tomato Mary Ann Currier (American, Louisville, Kentucky 1927–2017 Louisville, Kentucky) Date: 1984 Oil pastel on mat board 67.3 × 142.2 cm The MET •  

№ 5797 Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Grainstacks 1890 Private collection Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 W.1273

№ 5735 Alexander Altmann (Russian Empire-France, 1885 - 1950) Pêcheur en barque 1930 Oil on canvas Private collection •   Alexandre Altmann was born to a poor Jewish family near Kyiv in Ukraine in 1885. At the age of eleven, Altmann ran away to Odessa where he worked variously as a tailor, shoemaker, metalworker and grocery salesman. The painter Vlas Doroshevich took Altmann under his wing after noticing Altmann’s draughtsmanship and thus encouraged his pursuit of art. In 1905 Altmann moved...

  № 5818 John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853-1902) Deserted Wharf (The Old Mill at Cos Cob) before 1899 Oil on canvas 61.5 x 51 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art • In 1892, John Twachtman, one of the most imaginative of the American Impressionists, established a summer colony at Cos Cob, Connecticut. This painting depicts the Holley Mill near Cos Cob. Unlike the French Impressionists, who tended to analyze the effects of light and color in a scene, Twachtman was interested in expressing the p...

№ 5809 Stanislav Zhukovsky (Polish-Russian, 1873 – 1944) Summer Meadow, Pobojka dated 1938 oil on board, 48 by 48cm Private collection •  

№ 5823 Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872 – 1944) Apples, Ginger Pot and Plate on a Ledge watercolour, gouache and charcoal on paper 38 by 56cm. Executed in 1901. Private collection •  

№ 5821 NIGHT ENCHANTMENT: UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION PARIS 1900 Maxime MAUFRA (France, Nantes, 1861 - Poncé-sur-le-Loir, 1918) 1900 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81.3 Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts •   In 1889, Maxime Maufra, then twenty-eight years old and determined to devote himself fully to painting, went to Brittany to meet Paul Gauguin and his disciples, with a touch of skepticism signaling his independence of character: “I remained three months in this Breton country of Pont-Aven where I heard nothin...

№ 5830 Fern Isabel Coppedge (American, 1883-1951) WINTER ALONG THE TOWPATH oil on canvas, 46.4 by 51.4 cm Private collection •