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'Gas Alert.' (1919) William Roberts spent two years fighting in France during WW1, first at Vimy Ridge, then Arras and Ypres. Here, he depicts a group of British soldiers; the title an ominous reminder of the impending threat they constantly faced.
'Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime,' belongs to a group of four paintings based on photographs David Hockney took during a trip down the Rhine with Peter Schlesinger during the Autumn of 1968.
This watercolour from 1911 pre dates Harald Sohlberg’s 'Winter Night in the Mountains,' the most famous painted landscape in, and of, Norway. The work owes a great deal to the German and Norwegian Romantic tradition especially Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl.
In the winter of 1961-62 Duncan Grant stayed at San Roque, Cadiz, at the house of his friend, Edward le Bas. As the weather so poor, Grant mostly painted interiors and portraits. This picture depicts the sitting room of the house.
'Man at Anvil.' (1945) As well as being a painter, Michael Ayrton was a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth at the age of 19. He was also a book designer and illustrator for Wyndham Lewis's The Human Age trilogy.
'Edith Villiers.' (c1890) George Watts went beyond conventional Victorian depictions of high achievers. What he aimed at was psychological accuracy and can be seen as the inventor of modern portraiture, wanting portraits to convey 'the shape and colour of a mind and life.'
Corot painted this study of trees in Bas-Bréau in the Fontainebleau forest famous for its ancient oak trees,it's in the naturalistic style he had previously developed in Italy. He later 'transplanted,' the oak and used it in 'Wilderness,' a work he painted in the Palestine desert
Painted within the first few days of Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter's move to Rapallo near Genoa in 1905, we can see how Kandinsky has spontaneously and energetically
applied the paint with a palette knife, quickly capturing the movement of the sea.
'The Studio,' (1906) is among Walter Sickert’s most accomplished figure paintings. The scene is a mirror image, containing within itself a second mirror image, and further deconstruction reveals that the surface of the painting is a disguised looking mirror the painter is facing.
'The Colony Room,' (1962) The Gagosian is running an exhibition featuring work by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews who painted this work. The show opens on November 17 and closes in January 2023 at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill location in London.