On display Beauford Delaney Mémoire (Memory), 1964 Born into poverty and racial segregation, Beauford Delaney left his home state of Tennessee to study art in Boston. He moved to New…
Maurice Denis Septima hora, c. 1903 The painting’s warm, velvety, almost acid hues and thick, matte paintwork make it almost glow. It dates from a period when Maurice Denis was moving…
Maurice Denis Allégorie (Allegory), 1899 Allégorie is the opening lithography in Amour, an illustrated book commissioned by the publisher and art dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1892. When it was eventually…
Aimé-Jules Dalou Le Terrassier (The Road builder), between 1889 and 1898 Aimé-Jules Dalou, a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and contemporary of Auguste Rodin, was a major French sculptor in the latter half of the nineteenth century.…
Emile David Le Bosphore (The Bosphorus), between 1870 and 1878 Émile David studied with Barthélémy Menn in Geneva and Charles Gleyre in Paris before heading for Italy in 1848. He spent much of his time…
On display André Derain Forêt en Île-de-France (Sous-bois) (Forest in Ile-de-France, undergrowth), c. 1946-1948 While Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso left Cubism behind and moved on to a "new synthesis", André Derain turned increasingly to a restrictive form of…
Edgar Degas Portrait d'homme, d’après Maurice Quentin de La Tour (Portrait of a man, after Quentin de La Tour), c. 1868-1870 This copy of a 1760 work by Maurice Quentin de La Tour now in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris reflects the late-nineteenth-century popularity of eighteenth-century…
Jules Desbois Salomé, c. 1912 Jules Desbois showed an interest in subjects from Antiquity early in his career, presenting at the 1875 Salon a prize-winning Orpheus that was subsequently acquired…
Silvie Defraoui Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor), 1986-2009 Das Bild im Boden is a series of over one hundred works produced between 1986 and 2015 as part of the Archives du futur project,…
On display Silvie et Chérif Defraoui Zénith, 1991 Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and…
Maurice Denis Moscou (Couvent Novodievitchi, la tour rose) (Moscow, the Novodevichy Convent, the Pink Tower), 1909 The Russian school, long dominated by The Itinerants, opened up to Western art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Groups and reviews influenced by…
Charles Despiau Buste de Madame André Derain (Bust of Madame André Derain), 1926 Charles Despiau studied fine art in Paris and was then hired by Auguste Rodin to work in his studio from 1907 to 1914. Seeing himself…
Philippe Decrauzat Stone, Notes, Tones, 2014 Philippe Decrauzat has built a body of work on processes of visual and auditory perceptions that he transposes into geometric compositions combining references to abstract…
Edgar Degas Femme se frottant le dos avec une éponge, torse (Woman Scrubbing her Back with a Sponge, Torso, 1880s-1890s When Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917, some hundred and fifty sculptures, for the most part in wax and clay, were found in his…
Silvie Defraoui Plis et replies (Folds and Re-Folds), 2002 Silvie Defraoui studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers and then ceramics at the École des arts décoratifs in Geneva. After a…
Louis Ducros Le marchand de fritures (The Fried Food Vendor), 1782 In Rome, bustling street scenes featuring contemporaries in local costume became an increasingly successful genre in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Popular with…
Maurice Denis Baigneuses (Bathers) or Plage au petit temple (Petit Temple Beach), 1906 Displayed at the 1906 Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts and acquired in 1907 by Eugène Boch, the brother of the famous Belgian painter…
On display Francesco da Rimini Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30 This representation of the birth of the Virgin bathes in the universality of the divine presence manifested by the gold ground. At the centre, we…
Emile David Polyphème (Polyphemus), between 1860 and 1870 Only in the early seventeenth century did landscape painting become a noted genre in its own right in Rome, when vedute, or topographical views, became…
On display François Diday Le glacier du Rosenlaui (The Rosenlaui Glacier), 1841 François Diday studied fine art in Geneva and then in Antoine-Jean Gros’ studio in Paris. He showed his work regularly at the Paris Salon, where…
Edgar Degas Femme s’essuyant la nuque (Woman Drying Her Neck), c. 1903 Degas produced some two hundred pastels on the theme of women washing, placing the emphasis on the action itself: the figure is presented in close…
Hanne Darboven K – Zeichnung – 74 - 1/IV/7/4 – 16 à – 30/IV/7/4 – 45, 1974 Hanne Darboven, the daughter of a wealthy shopkeeper, grew up surrounded by art. She started playing the piano as a child – many of her…
Tony DeLap Tango Tangles II, 1966 In the 1960s, the American art scene was divided between the east and west coasts and underwent a profound shift in artistic practice, due in…
Edgar Degas Danseuse s’avançant, les bras levés, jambe droite en avant (deuxième étude) (Dancer Stepping Forward, her Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward [second study]), c. 1885–90 Ballet dancers training, resting or performing on stage were a major motif in Edgar Degas’ oeuvre from the early 1870s to his death. He often…
Silvie et Chérif Defraoui La nuit, les chambres sont plus grandes (At Night, Bedrooms Are Bigger), 1987 In 1975, after respective careers in the visual arts (for her) and in writing and cultural criticism (for him, after training as a historian), Silvie…
Stéphane Dafflon SAI010, 2011 Stéphane Dafflon’s development as an artist was shaped by his studies and an art scene that encouraged geometric abstraction. The influence of Swiss graphic design,…
Philippe Decrauzat Sans titre (Untitled), 2001 After graduating from École cantonale d’art in Lausanne, Philippe Decrauzat co-founded Circuit, an artist-run space in the same city, in 1998. His paintings, murals, installations…
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