Saturday, September 10, 2016

Mostly Early 20th-century European Figurative Artists

Eric Ravilious
Illustration for The Jew of Malta
1933
wood-engraving
British Museum

Bags of fiery Opals, Saphires, Amatists,
Jacints, hard Topas, grasse-greene Emeraulds,
Beauteous Rubyes, sparkling Diamonds,
And seildsene costly stones of so great price,
As one of them indifferently rated,
And of a Carrect of this quantity,
May serve in perill of calamity
To ransome great Kings from captivity.

 Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

Henry Moore
Bending figure from the back
1928
drawing
British Museum

Jan Toorop
The Model
1901
drypoint
British Museum

Duncan Grant
Portrait of George Mallory
1912
oil on panel
National Portrait Gallery, London

Denton Welch
Harvest
ca. 1940
oil on board
Tate Gallery, London

Suzanne Valadon
Reclining Nude
1928
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eric Gill
On the Tiles
1921
wood-engraving
British Museum

William Strang
Study of a man's back
1906
lithograph
British Museum

William Orpen
Woman on a bed
1910
drawing with watercolor
British Museum

Frannk Auerbach
Figure on a bed
1955
drawing
British Museum
from the Estate of Lucian Freud

Odilon Redon
Ophelia among the flowers
ca. 1905-08
pastel
National Gallery, London

Sir George Clausen
Seated figure
1921
drawing
British Museum

Simon Bussy
Gloxinia
early 20th century
pastel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Louis Forain
Woman washing
early 20th century
watercolor
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford