Monday Morning Museum: Henri Fantin-Latour

Self Portrait, 1867 by Henri Fantin-Latour

Henri Fantin-Latour (Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour) – Thursday 14 January 1836 Grenoble, France to Thursday 25 August 1904 Buré, France

French Realist Painter

Summer Flowers, 1880

"By the time Fantin painted this work, he had established a steady demand in Britain for his exquisite paintings of informal flower arrangements, set in modest vases and seen against a neutral ground. The flowers in this picture were picked from his garden at Buré in Normandy." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Robert Henri
Next Monday’s Artist – Georges de la Tour

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Monday Morning Museum: Robert Henri

Robert Henri, 1900 by Gertrude Käsebier

Robert Henri (Robert Henry Cozad) – Sunday 25 June 1865 Cincinnati, Ohio to Friday 12 July 1929 New York City, New York

American Ashcan School Painter

Mary Fanton Roberts, 1917

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
Classification: Paintings
- Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Henri-Edmond Cross
Next Monday’s Artist – Henri Fantin-Latour

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Monday Morning Museum: Henri-Edmond Cross

Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1880 by Henri-Edmond Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix) – Tuesday 20 May 1856 Douai, Nord, France to Monday 16 May 1910 Saint-Clair, Var, France

French Pointillist Painter

Landscape with Stars, circa 1905-1908

"This poetic depiction of a star-streaked sky combines the long broken brushstrokes of Cross's late works with a murky landscape of pen and ink, reminiscent in its impressionistic forms of Japanese painting." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – George Brassaï
Next Monday’s Artist –

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Monday Morning Museum: George Brassaï

George Brassaï, 1973 by Imogen Cunningham

George Brassaï [Gyula (Jules) Halász] – Saturday 9 September 1899 Brassó, Transylvania to Sunday 8 July 1984 Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France

Hungarian-born French Photographer

Couple D'amoureux Dans un Petit Café, Quartier Italie, circa 1932

"In this photograph, Brassaï's compositional skill is evident in the way he has framed his subjects, each lover's gaze reflected in a mirror. Such artifice and formal elegance, rather than the harsh realities of photographic realism, were of supreme importance to him. Indeed, this and many of his photographs were staged, leading to a complicity between photographer and subject that adds to the picture's sophistication and playfulness." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Caspar David Friedrich
Next Monday’s Artist – Henri-Edmond Cross

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