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A number of Piet Mondrian's paintings from the 1880s could easily be mistaken for pictures from half a century earlier by Daubigny or Théodore Rousseau. On the other hand, some works, like this one, seem to provide a glimpse of the colour explosion that would come in 1908.
'A Western Town, Evening.' (1922) In 1938 the poet Thomas MacGreevy wrote of Jack Yeats: 'He was first great Irish painter that Ireland has produced, or, indeed, could have produced; the first to fix what is peculiar to the Irish scene and to the Irish people.'
Painted in 1910, Marianne von Werefkin's 'Rythmen,' depicts the countryside at Murnau, where from 1908, Kandinsky, Münter as well as Alexej von Jawlensky developed their novel expressive style of painting, marking the beginning of the history of Der Blaue Reiter.
'Morning after Rain.' (1923) In his paintings of the early 1920s, Jack Yeats surveyed the character and activities of the ordinary people of Western Ireland. Here in Sligo, he depicts a man with a particular expression and deportment, suggesting he was someone Yeats knew.
'Summer Afternoon.' (1903) We know that the figure in Emil Nolde's work is Ada, a Danish girl from the island of Alsen. Nolde said he was 'amazed by her natural beauty, sadly a rough sailor turned up, fell in love with her and we never saw her or heard of her again.'
'Curved Barn,' (1922) The first impression this painting (Bex Mill, Sussex) gives is of a summary evocation; it's important to remember that Hitchens was one of the most quietly radical British artists of his era, steeped in post-impressionist and modernist French painting.
'Margaret Morris, Summer, 1914,' depicts J D Fergusson's wife who he first met in Paris in 1913. She was a pioneer of the modern dance style made popular by Isadora Duncan, and was the inspiration for numerous portraits which give an insight into all aspects of her career.
Louis de Brocquy wrote of this work: 'In 1959 passing through a village in La Mancha in shimmering heat, I stopped spellbound before a small group of women and children standing against a whitewashed wall. From that moment I never perceived the human presence in the same way.'
Rachel Reckitt's painting of a family taking shelter from the London Blitz
is painted from her viewpoint as a relief orderly assisting with the evacuation of children from the city to Golsoncott in Somerset.
@Tate has announced they are holding a major exhibition of Paul Cezanne's works in London this autumn with around 80 paintings from collections in Europe, Asia, North and South America. This is 'Seated Man,' from around 1905.