Painting & Paintings

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsboroughs masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significan...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic wave...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

This book accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon that will unite Chardins four paintings of a boy with a house of cards for the first time (loans c...

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...