"the following season, in Autumn/Winter 2009. For her spring/summer 2011 collection ""Ceci n’est pas une chambre"", a title inspired by Rene Magritte’s ""Ceci n’est pas une pipe,"" she challenged the viewer by printing on her designs fragments of images borrowed from old issues of Architectural Digest and World of Interiors. As she worked with volume, depth and perspective, the clothes acquired an engaging three-dimensional quality. ""With digital printing you get that precision engineering where everything is marked around the body in a perfect way."" Her collections are now sold in over 200 fashion shops, including Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Barneys, Neiman"
"Garçon à la pipe Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers. The painting was famously sold at a 2004 auction for $104 million, a price many art critics consider incongruous with the painting's actual artistic merit. Early preparations of this work involved positioning"
"""La trahison des images"" (""The treachery of images""), by René Magritte, that is often referred to as ""This is not a pipe"". It contains an image of a pipe as well as the legend ""This is not a pipe,"" even though that was not meant to be its title. In this case, two different understandings of the artists’ intentions and the content depend on which title is chosen to go with it. Overall, random titles, other than the original, decrease understanding ratings, but do not necessarily alter the significance of aesthetic experience. Elaborative, as opposed to descriptive, titles are particularly"
"Marie Laurencin, Modigliani, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger and Louis Marcoussis; writers Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Coquiot, Cremnitz (Maurice Chevrier), Paul Fort, André Warnod, Raymond Radiguet, and Gertrude Stein; actors Charles Dullin, Harry Baur, and Gaston Modot; and art dealers Ambroise Vollard, , Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and Berthe Weill. While residing at the Bateau-Lavoir Picasso painted works such as ""Garçon à la pipe"" (""Boy with a Pipe"") in 1905, and one of his most noted works, ""Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"" in 1907, considered by art historians as a proto-Cubist painting (the precursor of a"
"Ecce Homo (Caravaggio) Ecce Homo (c. 1605/6 or 1609 according to John Gash) is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio. It is housed in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa. According to Giambatista Cardi, nephew of the Florentine artist Cigoli, Cardinal Massimo Massimi commissioned paintings on the theme of Ecce Homo from three artists, Cigoli, Caravaggio, and Domenico Passignano, without informing the artists of the multiple commissions. Cardi claimed the cardinal liked Cigoli's version best. The scene is taken from the Gospel of (John 19): Pontius Pilate displays Christ to the crowd with the words, ""Ecce homo!"" (""Behold the man""). Caravaggio's"
"The Bathers (Cézanne) The Bathers (French: Les Grandes Baigneuses) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne first exhibited in 1906. The painting, which is exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the largest of a series of ""Bather"" paintings by Cézanne; the others are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, National Gallery, London, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Occasionally referred to as the Big Bathers or Large Bathers to distinguish it from the smaller works, the painting is considered one of the masterpieces of modern art, and is"
"not lending and the private collector declining to release the work. The mini-series of men smoking pipes sometimes referred to as ""The Smokers"" was also included with over a dozen other studies and sketches, however a legal dispute also prevented the Hermitage Museum's version of ""Man with a Pipe"" from traveling to New York. The Card Players The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the"
"Man with a Pipe Man with a Pipe, also referred to as Portrait of an American Smoker, Portrait of an American Smoking and American Smoking, is a painting by the French Cubist artist Jean Metzinger. The work was reproduced on the cover of catalogue of the ""Exhibition of Cubist and Futurist Pictures"", Boggs & Buhl Department Store, Pittsburgh, forming part of a show in 1913 that traveled to several U.S. cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia. In 1914 a catalogue was printed for the occasion of the Milwaukee leg of the show, 16 April to 12 May, titled"
"Le ruisseau noir Le ruisseau noir (The Black Stream) (also known in En. as ""Stream in a Ravine"") is an oil-on-canvas landscape painted by French artist, Gustave Courbet, in 1865. It is currently held and exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This picture was included in the Exposition Universelle of 1867, and was bought from the artist in the same year by the Comte de Nieuwerkerque, Director of Museums, for Napoleon III, at the price of 2000 French francs. It was part of the Emperor's personal property, and was allotted to the Louvre by the Tribunal de la Seine,"
"for highest price for a painting; surpassed only by Leonardo da Vinci's ""Salvator Mundi"" in November 2017. Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of"
"to the work, claiming that ""the picture is merely a work of art, and has nothing to do with drink or sociology."" L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the"
"Le Fumeur Le Fumeur (en. ""The Smoker""), or Man with Pipe, is a Cubist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. It has been suggested that the sitter depicted in the painting represents either Guillaume Apollinaire or Max Jacob. The work was exhibited in the spring of 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, Champ-de-Mars, March 1–April 30, 1914, no. 2289, Room 11. A photograph of ""Le Fumeur"" was published in Le Petit Comtois (""Au Salon des Indépendants, Les chefs-d'œuvre modernes""), 13 March 1914, for the occasion of the exhibition. In July 1914 the painting was exhibited in Berlin at"
"included pipes in his pieces. One such painting is a still life entitled ""Smoking Kit with Drinking Pot."" The pipe in this piece lacks symbolic meaning. In the late 18th century and early 19th century, smoking took on new and varied symbolic meanings. During this time period, men were the primary smokers, and smoking was not an acceptable habit for women who were expected to be ideal mothers or mistresses. In the Romantic period, people believed smoking held a close association with intellectualism. Édouard Manet's ""Stéphane Mallarmé"" exemplifies art from this time. The painting shows an upper class man with"
"Resurrection (Cecco del Caravaggio) The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio, the Italian Baroque painter, is the only painting securely documented as his. Through the use of alternate strong lights and deep shadows the chiaroscuro highlights the vividness of the dramatic scene. One of Cecco's most notable works, the painting is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting depicts the moment of the resurrection as described in : The artwork is a large-scale painting intended for private devotion. It was commissioned in 1619 for Piero Guicciardini, the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, for his private chapel in"
"Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny (English:""The Artist's Garden at Giverny"") is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900 now the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life.The painting shows rows of irises in various shades of purple and pink set diagonally across the picture plane. The flowers are under trees that in allowing dappled light through change the tone of their colours. Beyond the trees is a glimpse of Monet's house."
"L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Painted in 1875–76, the work portrays a woman and man sitting side-by-side, drinking a glass of absinthe. They"
"Boating on the River Epte Boating on the River Epte (also known as The Canoe on the Epte) is an 1890 oil painting by French impressionist artist Claude Monet. It is currently housed at the São Paulo Museum of Art. Between 1887 and 1890 Monet concerned himself with portraying scenes from the River Epte, which bathed this property at Giverny. The sisters Suzanne and Blanche Hoschedé posed for this series of pictures, their late father being banker Ernest Hoschedé, a patron of the arts and collector of Monet, and their mother, Alice, who became Monet’s second wife. This series began"
"Water Lilies (Monet series) Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts. Monet's long preference for producing and exhibiting a series of paintings related by subject and perspective began in 1889, with at least ten paintings done at the ""Valley of the Creuse"", which were shown at the Galerie Georges"
"The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe is a pointillist painting by French artist Georges Seurat, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Painted in 1890, the year before his death, it depicts a harbor in the small French port of Gravelines. Described as ""wistful and poetic,"" it is one of the treasures of the IMA. As one of Seurat's final paintings, ""The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe"" demonstrates beautifully the principles of Seurat's own Neo-Impressionist movement. His systematic application of dots in colors carefully chosen according to laws"
"Bain à la Grenouillère Bain à la Grenouillère is a painting by the impressionist painter, Claude Monet. (Oil on canvas, 74.6 cm x 99.7 cm) Monet wrote on September 25, 1869 in a letter to Frédéric Bazille, ""I do have a dream, a painting (""tableau""), the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches (""pochades""), but it is only a dream. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting."" Monet and Renoir, both desperately poor, were quite close at the time. The painting here and one in the London"
"$300 million ($ million today), either price signifying a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until November 2017. The series is considered by critics to be a cornerstone of Cézanne's art during the early-to-mid 1890s period, as well as a ""prelude"" to his final years, when he painted some of his most acclaimed work. Each painting depicts Provençal peasants immersed in their pipes and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on the game at hand. Cézanne adapted a motif from 17th-century Dutch and"
"Le Grand Canal Le Grand Canal is an oil on canvas painting by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). It is one of six paintings looking down the Grand Canal towards the Salute church. This Grand Canal series is in turn part of a larger series of paintings of Venice which Monet undertook during 1908 on his only visit to the city. The artist is generally regarded by art historians as being at the peak of his powers at this period. The paintings were begun ""en plein air"" and completed in France. This painting is a classic view of the"
"Portrait of Marie-Françoise Rivière Portrait of Marie-Françoise Rivière (also known as Portrait of Madame Rivière, or la Femme au châle) is a c. 1805 oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Madame Rivière, born Marie-Françoise-Jacquette-Bibiane Blot de Beauregard, and known as Sabine, married Philibert Rivière de L'Isle, an influential court official in the in Napoleonic Empire, who commissioned this work, along with portraits of himself and their daughter, Caroline. The painting is composed from white, chilly blue, beige and ochre colours. It has an overall, deliberately flat and shadow-less appearance. The portrait has been described as"
"the acquisition number 45.195. The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe is a pointillist painting by French artist Georges Seurat, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Painted in 1890, the year before his death, it depicts a harbor in the small French port of Gravelines. Described as ""wistful and poetic,"" it is one of the treasures of the IMA. As one of Seurat's final paintings, ""The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe"" demonstrates beautifully the principles of Seurat's own Neo-Impressionist movement. His systematic application of dots in colors carefully"
"water lilies in his pond, the pond's bridge, and his garden. Water Lilies (1919) The Water Lilies is a 1919 painting by impressionist Claude Monet, one of his ""Water Lilies"" series. The painting depicts a scene in Monet's French pond showing light reflecting off the water with water lilies on the surface. It is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of Monet's larger paintings, it shows the beauty of the sunset reflecting off the water. In 1919, Claude Monet was an elderly man who had already had been painting for almost 70 years, and his ""Water"
"absence of people gives an other-worldly impression. Le Grand Canal Le Grand Canal is an oil on canvas painting by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). It is one of six paintings looking down the Grand Canal towards the Salute church. This Grand Canal series is in turn part of a larger series of paintings of Venice which Monet undertook during 1908 on his only visit to the city. The artist is generally regarded by art historians as being at the peak of his powers at this period. The paintings were begun ""en plein air"" and completed in France. This"
"La Coiffeuse La Coiffeuse is a painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting was done by Pablo Picasso in 1911. It is 33x46 centimetre (or 13x18 inch). The painting was donated to the French state. It was last exhibited in Berlin, Germany, in 1998. It was then stored at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. However, it was stolen in 2001. In December 2014, it was sent via FedEx from Belgium to the United States with a customs indication as a Christmas present. Upon its arrival, it was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey. By August 2015,"
"Les Baigneuses (Gleizes) Les Baigneuses (also known as The Bathers), is a large oil painting created at the outset of 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes (1881–1953). It was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1912; the Salon de la Société Normande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen, summer 1912; and the Salon de la Section d'Or, autumn 1912. The painting was reproduced in ""Du ""Cubisme"""", written by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger the same year: the first and only manifesto on Cubism. ""Les Baigneuses"", while still 'readable' in the figurative or"
"Cubist Landscape Cubist Landscape, also referred to as Tree and River and Paysage cubiste or Arbre et fleuve, is a Cubist painting created in 1914 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. ""Tree and River"" is one of Gleizes' last pre-World War I landscapes. A comparison with earlier works such as ""Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon"" (1911), ""Les Baigneuses (Gleizes)"" (1912), ""Harvest Threshing"" (1912) and ""Passy, Bridges of Paris"" (1912) demonstrates the artists' continuity with the theme of deep spatial vistas and wide panoramic views, though with a notable diminution of specific references to reality. The painting was"
"Bacchus (Leonardo) Bacchus, formerly Saint John the Baptist, is a painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, based on a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is presumed to have been executed by an unknown follower, perhaps in Leonardo's workshop. Sydney J. Freedberg assigns the drawing to Leonardo's second Milan period. Among the Lombard painters who have been suggested as possible authors are Cesare da Sesto, Marco d'Oggiono, Francesco Melzi, and Cesare Bernazzano. The painting shows a male figure with garlanded head and leopard skin, seated in an idyllic landscape. He points with his right"
"View from the Quai d'Orsay View from the Quai d'Orsay is a mid-19th century painting by the Dutch artist Johan Barthold Jongkind. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting depicts the Quai d'Orsay on the left bank of the River Seine. In line with some of his earlier works, Jongkind rendered the Seine to be a place of industrial activity; as such, cranes, barges, rowboats, and pack animals occupy a prominent role in the painting. Further down the river, large Parisian structures can be seen, while a"
"Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, ""La Blanchisseuse"", his early painting of"
"Shepherd with a Flute Shepherd with a flute, or Boy with a Pipe, is a painting in oil on canvas of perhaps 1510-15, in recent decades usually attributed to Titian, though in the past often to Giorgione. It is now in the Royal Collection, and in 2018 was in the King's Closet at Windsor Castle. Since at least 1983 it has been called ""Boy with a Pipe ('The Shepherd')"" by the Royal Collection; previous titles the collection recognise include ""Shepherd with a pipe"", and ""The Shepherd"". X-ray radiography reveals that the figure ""originally wore a more formal style of white"