Paul Cezanne
Homme assis, 1905 - 1906
Cezanne's supporters and admirers included Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, who referred to him as “the greatest of us all"...
Tamara de Lempicka
#botd May 16, 1898
"Her milieu was the glittery and scintillating Paris of the years between the wars, a place of high style and lascivious behaviour..." — Fiona MacCarthy
Autoportrait, 1929 • 📷 Dora Kallmus, 1929
French illustrator Robert Falcucci's posters for the Grand Prix de Monaco 1930 and 1932
Angela Carter
May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992
Ranked among the greatest British writers since 1945, Angela Carter wrote novels, short stories, drama and journalism that stood defiantly apart from the work of her contemporaries...
Twenty-two paintings by Paul Cézanne that have never before been seen in the UK will go on show at Tate Modern in the autumn, in an exhibition of around 80 selected works from collections in Europe, Asia, North and South America...
https://t.co/OAoLjNtt2v
Lin Fengmian (1900 - 1991) 'was one of the first Chinese artists to make a serious study of European modern art. He saw no contradiction in this coexistence — Eastern, Western, ancient and modern influences all commingling in a single work of art...'
https://t.co/1hUeuswrVh
Bridget Riley
#botd April 24, 1931
“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things – you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”
Hans Richter
#botd April 6, 1888
Painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-maker...
Lewis Morley's photograph of Christine Keeler #botd, shot in his studio above The Establishment in Soho's Greek Street, is one of the iconic images of 1960s Britain.