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Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, Portière du Char de Triomphe (Portière of the Triumphal Chariot), late seventeenth century, Based on a design by Charles Le Brun, c. 1659-1665

Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris

Portière du Char de Triomphe (Portière of the Triumphal Chariot), late seventeenth century, Based on a design by Charles Le Brun, c. 1659-1665

This tapestry, made to hang over a door as a draught excluder, depicts a triumphal chariot face-on, showing the front of the carriage…

Henri Manguin , Nature morte au plat de fruits (Still life with a dish of fruit), 1917

Henri Manguin

Nature morte au plat de fruits (Still life with a dish of fruit), 1917

At the age of eighteen, Henri Manguin struck up a friendship with two fellow fine art students, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. The trio was…

Yoan Mudry, Reflections on Painting #3 (Jane Goodall), 2021

Yoan Mudry

Reflections on Painting #3 (Jane Goodall), 2021

Yoan Mudry graduated from the Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, in 2014. Since then, he has been developing a theory of image saturation,…

Constantin Meunier , Le Débardeur (The Stevedore), 1893

Constantin Meunier

Le Débardeur (The Stevedore), 1893

This is one of Constantin Meunier's best-known works, initially designed as part of a Monument to Labour that was never completed. Meunier worked from life…

Aimée Moreau , Nature morte (Still Life), 1975

Aimée Moreau

Nature morte (Still Life), 1975

After leaving school in Paris, Aimée Moreau studied art privately in the same city, devoting herself entirely to painting from the mid-1950s on. She has…

Taus Makhacheva , 4’224,92 cm2 de Degas, 2020

Taus Makhacheva

4’224,92 cm2 de Degas, 2020

Taus Makhacheva's performances, installations and videos are often inspired by stories heard, imagined, or witnessed by the artist herself. She explores the grand narratives of…

Albert Marquet, Lausanne et le lac (Lausanne and the Lake), 1936

Albert Marquet

Lausanne et le lac (Lausanne and the Lake), 1936

On January 23, 1936, Paul Vallotton, founder of the Lausanne gallery of the same name, died while on the telephone to discuss a forthcoming exhibition…

François Morellet, Décrochage no 4 (Coming Undone n. 4), 2005

François Morellet

Décrochage no 4 (Coming Undone n. 4), 2005

Despite the severe, bare appearance of his artistic language, François Morellet shows great invention and humour in his approach to geometrical abstraction. After a short…

Albert Marquet, Les deux pêcheurs à Naples (Two Anglers in Naples), 1911

Albert Marquet

Les deux pêcheurs à Naples (Two Anglers in Naples), 1911

1905 marked the beginning of what Albert Marquet's wife Marcelle referred to as his ‘travelling period’. The artist, whose works generate a sense of quiet…

Luigi Monteverde, Raisins (Grapes), 1889

Luigi Monteverde

Raisins (Grapes), 1889

Monteverde's childhood was divided between Lugano, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, where his brother, a painter and decorator, taught him his trade. In 1870, Monteverde travelled…

Albert Marquet, Samois, l’île (Samois, Island), 1917

Albert Marquet

Samois, l’île (Samois, Island), 1917

Albert Marquet spend August and September 1917 living by the Seine in Samois, a village about forty miles south-east of Paris. Once he had found…

Albert Marquet, Grimstad, Norvège (Grimstad, Norway), 1925

Albert Marquet

Grimstad, Norvège (Grimstad, Norway), 1925

Albert Marquet's art betrays a lifelong, near-obsessive fascination with water. He took little interest in sites of outstanding beauty or remarkable views. The scenes he…

Aristide Maillol, Torse de l'Île-de-France (Torso of the Ìle-de-France), 1922

Aristide Maillol

Torse de l'Île-de-France (Torso of the Ìle-de-France), 1922

Aristide Maillol studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before turning to sculpture in 1895. His early works were influenced by Art Nouveau;…

Mario Merz , 8 che riporta 8 – La natura interloquisce sempre e solo con se stessa? Paesaggio con vento – Fibonacci (8 Which Reports 8 – Does Nature Always Interact Only with Itself? Landscape with Wind – Fibonacci), 1978

Mario Merz

8 che riporta 8 – La natura interloquisce sempre e solo con se stessa? Paesaggio con vento – Fibonacci (8 Which Reports 8 – Does Nature Always Interact Only with Itself? Landscape with Wind – Fibonacci), 1978

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Fibonacci sequence ([0], 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on) was a constant reference for…

Robert Motherwell , Elegy Study A, 1977

Robert Motherwell

Elegy Study A, 1977

Robert Motherwell studied at Stanford and Yale universities. His intellectual interests spanned philosophy, literature, art history and psychology. In 1940, on returning to America after…

Nalini Malani , Unity in Diversity, 2003

Nalini Malani

Unity in Diversity, 2003

Nalini Malani is a politically committed artist who sees her work as an active, eyewitness account of modern society. The work mimics a middle-class Indian…

Olivier Mosset, Pink Star, 1990

Olivier Mosset

Pink Star, 1990

Olivier Mosset moved to New York in 1977 after more than ten years in Paris. In an artistic context influenced by its minimalist heritage, he…

Albert Marquet, Notre-Dame, temps de neige (Notre Dame under Snow), c. 1914

Albert Marquet

Notre-Dame, temps de neige (Notre Dame under Snow), c. 1914

By January 1908 Albert Marquet was living on the fifth floor at 19 Quai Saint-Michel. He approached the scene in Paris as a totality, as…

Constantin Meunier , Le marteleur (The Drop Forger), 1886

Constantin Meunier

Le marteleur (The Drop Forger), 1886

Following his academic training, Meunier attended classes given by the Belgian sculptor Louis Jéhotte, an admirer of Greek art, before taking up painting, a medium…

Ana Mendieta, Fundamento Palo Monte: Silueta Series (Gunpowder Work), 1980

Ana Mendieta

Fundamento Palo Monte: Silueta Series (Gunpowder Work), 1980

Created mainly outdoors (on the US East Coast, in Iowa, Indiana, Canada, Mexico and Cuba), the works of Ana Mendieta are all about the relation…

Claude Monet, Voiliers en mer (Sailing Boats at Sea), 1868

Claude Monet

Voiliers en mer (Sailing Boats at Sea), 1868

After several years in Paris, Claude Monet returned to Le Havre for a few months in the summer of 1862. He went painting along the…

Henri Matisse, Nature morte au couteau noir (Still life with black Knife), 1896

Henri Matisse

Nature morte au couteau noir (Still life with black Knife), 1896

Henri Matisse spent hours at the Louvre copying the old masters as his teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Gustave Moreau, had…

Jean-Luc Manz, Les pleurs de cendres IV (Tears of Ashes IV), 1996

Jean-Luc Manz

Les pleurs de cendres IV (Tears of Ashes IV), 1996

Jean-Luc Manz’s work follows a particular, indeed unique path through the geometrical abstraction movement that developed in and around Geneva and Lausanne from the 1980s…

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