André Tommasini Dogonto, 1974 André Tommasini was born in Lausanne to an Italian family of marble headstone suppliers based close to Montoie cemetery. He learned stone-carving with…
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen Masséida et le singe Gaspard (Masséida and the monkey Gaspard), after 1911 In 1911, Jean-Louis Forain introduced Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen to Masséida, a young woman of Bambara ethnicity well known in art circles. She regularly posed for artists,…
Richard Tuttle The Baroque and Color VII, 1986-1987 Although often associated with the post-minimalist tendency, Richard Tuttle is in fact one of the most disconcerting and hard to pin-down American artists of the…
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Portrait de Nicolas Châtelain, c. 1800–10 Nicolas Châtelain and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein – the model and his painter – both belonged to grand dynasties. Châtelain, the son of a pastor,…
Cy Twombly Proem, 1983 Cy Twombly’s work draws on a deep well of scholarship. The artist displayed boundless intellectual curiosity from a very young age. In 1952 he travelled…
