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Auguste Renoir 10: 1911-1919

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Crippled by his arthritis, he couldn’t stop painting. Landscapes became more radical, and he painted more bathers. Some of Renoir’s last and most radical works.

November 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: Mimosa and memories, 1944-1947

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Paintings of exuberant brilliant yellow mimosa, bleak self-portraits, and his favourite views around Le Cannet from his final years.

August 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: Domestic Symphony, 1918-1920

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With the end of the war, his output increased significantly. A close look at the Tate’s ‘Bowl of Milk’, and Bonnard’s continuing independence.

July 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Nikolai Astrup: Dark Sunlight 3 – 1911-19

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After a visit to Berlin, his colours became more strident, and his brushstrokes looser. He also made many woodcuts, which influenced and informed his paintings.

March 9, 2017 General, Painting

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 12 For the museum

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Far from being a recluse, the last years saw him teaching avidly, painting major works, and transforming his house into a museum.

January 26, 2017 General, Painting

Book review and exhibition: Australia’s Impressionists, ed. Riopelle

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A unique opportunity to see the works of four of Australia’s most important painters, and to broaden understanding of Impressionism.

December 2, 2016 General, Painting

Art promotion by the Bloomsbury Group: 2. Clive Bell and Significant Form

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It was Clive Bell’s aesthetics which underpinned Roger Fry’s promotion of the Post-Impressionists. Here is what he wrote.

November 27, 2015 General, Painting

Art promotion by the Bloomsbury Group: 1. How Roger Fry changed history

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An exhibition in London in 1910 changed the course of history for Cézanne, and John Singer Sargent.

November 20, 2015 General, Painting

Book Review: Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle

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Paintings by Delacroix are rare outside Paris. This book is catalogue to an exhibition now in Minneapolis, in 2016 due for London.

October 25, 2015 General, Painting

Favourite Paintings 10: Paul Signac, Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseille, 1905-6

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A luminous painting of the port of Marseille in dawn light, looking up towards the ‘Good Mother’ church, marks the height of both Neo-Impressionism and Fauvism.

March 2, 2015 Painting
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