The Clever Pup

Photo of Misia by Vuillard, 1897 Misia by Renoir 1904 In 1907 Misia’s marriage to Alfred Edwards was in tatters. Misia was extremely jeal...

Portrait of Misia - Henri-Toulouse Lautrec I had never heard of Misia until G-Pup bought me the book Misia, The Life of Misia Sert, by Ar...

Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard Edouard Vuillard In 1900 Misia was a voluptous 28 years old. The Paris Exposition was on. Misia was abou...

This is such an interesting story. I hope I can do it justice. I originally saw it on BBC's "Fake or Fortune" . As a genealo...

"I myself still find photographs frightful and don’t like to have any, especially not of people whom I know and love."   Vincent...

An intimate warmth predominates James Tissot’s The Shop Girl (1883-1885). The shaded interior makes the viewer feel like an elite in...

Neville Gabie, artist in residence at London's Olympic Park has paid tribute to the construction workers at the 2012 Games site by i...

And I'll take two. Not in my wildest dreams unfortunately. But any of these posters would trump the somber Schiele reproduction we boug...

In the autumn of 2012  the Art Gallery of Ontario will exhibit works by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her on again, off again husband Dieg...

1910 Remembered (1962) depicts artist Jean Paul Lemieux as a child, standing between his parents who were soon to separate. Looking out fr...

And so could essayist Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle promoted the nobleness of work in his 1843 essay Past and Present . Ever the critic, Carlyle c...

  Even the cherubs look dismayed. Baron de St. Julien asked Fragonard to depict him in the foreground of his 1766 painting, where he coul...

Napoleon crops up a lot in my Art History and Paris Salon classes. The 19th-century French exalted him and then seemed cringingly embarrasse...

(Close to 6,000 hits on this post. I'm the must be the go-to-girl on The Tennis Court Oath.) This pen and ink sketch by David was a...

Another attempt to get names and dates firmly entrenched before my mid-term. I'm starting to dislike this uber-masculine painting; too m...

While I don't like Neo-Classicism at all, "small R" republicans ate this stuff up in Revolutionary France. Here is Jacques-L...