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Henri Matisse

The paintings and sculpture of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) are among the most recognized and widely diffused of all art works. Matisse trained as a lawyer before switching to painting in 1891.
After studying under Bouguereau and Moreau, he began to develop his own distinctive style and enjoyed an international reputation from 1920 onwards. One of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, his bold use of color and shape was instrumental in the development of the Fauvist movement, of which Pablo Picasso and André Derain were also an important part.
Henri Matisse

Vermeer and the Delft School

Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts, including luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself.
Vermeer and the Delft School

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cezanne was for the most part self-taught. Denied official recognition in Paris, he returned again and again to Provence to create his own style, largely independent of other artists' influence.
Paul Cezanne in Provence

Francisco de Goya

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf.
In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Francisco Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life.
Francisco Goya: Old Man

Philip Guston

The most comprehensive survey of Philip Guston's art to date, the book begins with figurative works dating from the 1930s and 1940s, followed by a small and pivotal group of transitional works that show the artist's rapid and bold entry into abstraction.
Philip Guston: Retrospective

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke is one of the world's most revered and influential contemporary artists. This handsome book documents Sigmar Polke's recent work, which continues and deepens the artist's famed explorations of how images are made, used, and thought about in our media-dominated culture.
Sigmar Polke: History of Everything

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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1887. Schwitters studied at the Hanover School for Applied Arts and the Art Academy in Dresden. There is scarcely an artist working today, provided they use materials other than paint, who does not refer to Kurt Schwitters in some way. In his bold and wide-ranging experiments, his prodigious collages and ground-breaking environments, he can be seen as the grandfather of modern art.
Kurt Schwitters

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp's stature in history of art has grown steadily since the 1930's, largely because several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father.
Marcel Duchamp

Jean Tinguely in Duisburg

Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum is very pleased, to be able to present the public an important acquisition in her collection. The Peter Klöckner & Co. AG, Duisburg donates the Museum Jean Tinguelys work "The little tiny man", which has a value of about 800.000 Euro and is a basic enrichment of the little Tinguely-collection of the Lehmbruck Museum.
Jean Tinguely in Duisburg

Karel Appel and Cobra

Karel Appel's early involvement with the famed avant-garde artist's group Cobra (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) led to an interest in folk art, children's art, and art by the mentally disturbed. In 1950, Karel Appel visited the great "International Exhibition on Psychopathological Art" at the Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.
Years of travel and experimentation with subjects, colors and materials, left him with a close relationship to the American art community and studios all over the world. Karel Appel was a sculptor and a ceramist, too, but he was above all an expressionist, a man of passion led by spontaneity, who has conversely made a lasting mark.
Karel Appel and Cobra

Mathias Poledna

Witte de With opens its new season in 2006 with the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Mathias Poledna. The exhibition will present two of his recent film installations – Western Recording (2003) and Version (2004) – in dialogue with works in other media, giving viewers a concentrated and unique insight into his practice.
Mathias Poledna

John Singer Sargent

This sumptuous book is the third volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
John Singer Sargent: Later Portraits

John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s

This gorgeous book is the second volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). It comprises over onehundred and fifty formal portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor that he painted between 1889 and 1900.
The catalogued works have been grouped into chronological sections, each with its own introduction to set the particular group in context. In addition, an overall introduction places Sargent in the context of European portraiture of the past and of his own time.
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300090676

Botero Sculptures by Fernando Botero

The work of contemporary Colombian artist Fernanado Botero is well known throughout the world. His exaggerated rendering of fleshy human, animal, and still-life figures has become an unmistakable characteristic of his style. This beautifully illustrated volume is one of the few to focus solely on Botero's sculpture, which provides an ideal medium for his exploration of space and volume. The book showcases works in small and medium format as well as the famous monumental works that have made Botero the leading sculptor of the 20th century.
Publisher: Villegas Editores; ISBN: 9589393640