It is now generally acknowledged that the two greatest painters of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Henri Matisse, were also two of its greatest sculptors. In 2002 the Gallery acquired its first and, so far, only significant sculpture by Picasso, Head of a Woman (Fernande) , 1909.
may be discerned in the head, but the apparently autoerotic placement of her left hand
Marks Inscriptions lower right in pen and brown ink: Domo Tiepolo f; by later hand
Filippino Lippi 1480 Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap; a Right Forearm with the Hand
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1774, roulette and etching with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper and hand-colored
She holds up a gold-colored stylus with her right hand, closer to us, with a pointed
at the table in a darkened room, an old woman leans her head on the back of her hand
The short biblical account of the Flight into Egypt (Matt. 2:13–14) was elaborated upon by Early Christian and medieval theologians.
Both gaze downward to the bunch of green grapes Mary holds delicately in her left hand
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
At the same time she brings her left hand to her chest, holding up her chemise in
Michel Sittow was born about 1469 of German-Scandinavian stock in the Hanseatic port city of Reval, now Tallinn, in Estonia. He probably received his earliest training in Reval from his father, also a painter, yet his apprenticeship in Bruges and years of work for Queen Isabel of Castile and for allied courts gave his art a Flemish and cosmopolitan flavor.
[Hand, John Oliver, and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting.
