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In 1909, Hamilton Easter Field, a Brooklyn painter and critic, asked Picasso to create a group of eleven paintings as a decoration for his library. Picasso accepted but, although he worked on the commission intermittently over the next several years, he never completed all eleven of the panels.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 255, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
A popular subject in Counter–Reformation Italy and Spain, Ribera’s profoundly moving work portrays the apostle’s final moments before he is to be flayed alive. The viewer is meant to empathize with Bartholomew, whose body seemingly bursts through the surface of the canvas, and whose outstretched arms embrace a mystical light that illuminates his flesh.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 214-218, color repro. 215. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Washington, D.C., 2000: 126-130, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
This young woman sits at her dressing table arranging her hair. She is looking at herself in a mirror just outside the frame.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 40, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Washington, D.C., 1992: 97-99, color repro. 99. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Degas is famous for his depictions of ballerinas. This painting is one of his most perplexing examples.
New York Times (September 2, 1999): C1, C3. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Chicago and London, 1998: 1:370. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
Buffalo; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1995-1996: no. 8. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Ellsworth Kelly realized his first abstractions during his stay in France from 1948 to 1954. In these extremely productive years, he created a body of work whose refinement of line, form, and color remains the fundamental language of his art.
du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1992: 145, 174, no. 89, color pl. 85. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
The title „Improvisations“ refers to a series of works that Kandinsky painted between 1909 and 1913 which was, according to the artist, „a largely unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character, non-material nature.“
Chicago, 2001: 52-53, 209, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
