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Woman Ironing (French: La repasseuse) [1] is a 1904 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was completed during the artist's Blue Period (1901—1904). This evocative image, painted in neutral tones of blue and gray, depicts an emaciated woman with hollowed eyes, sunken cheeks, and bent form, as she presses down on an iron with all her will.
Woman with Parakeet (French: La Femme à la perruche) is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir created in 1871. It is in the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the Thannhauser Collection. [1] The painting portrays model Lise Tréhot, who posed for Renoir in over twenty paintings during the years 1866 to 1872.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain. The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York, United States (1937–present) [1]
The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting.
The itinerary of the painting, in Germany in 1933, sold in Switzerland in 1936, transported to the US and later donated to a New York museum, posed issues of choice of law as well [10] The case is generally known as Schoeps v. Museum of Modern Art and the R. Guggenheim Foundation. [11] Julius H. Schoeps was the spokesperson for the Mendelssohn ...
Home to some of the most famous and awe-inspiring art pieces in the world, the Guggenheim sees nearly 2 million visitors each year. Crowd fills the corner of 89th St. and Fifth Ave. at the ope