Museum Masterpieces

Annie Feray Mutrie (British, 1826-1893) - Cactus | Bonhams

Annie Feray Mutrie was the younger sister of Martha Darley Mutrie. Born in Manchester, both girls studied at the Manchester School of Design under George Wallis. Both artists specialised in still life painting, regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1851-1882.

The naturalistic style of their work was admired by John Ruskin, who in praise of Annie Feray wrote: "All these flower paintings are remarkable for very lovely, pure, and yet unobtrusive colour- perfectly tender and yet luscious, and a richness of petal texture that seems absolutely scented.

Exhibited:

(possibly) Royal Academy, 1866, no. 370;

Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867.

Paul Éluard / Pablo Picasso | La colomba della pace / Le Visage de la Paix, 1951

La Colomba (in francese: La Colombe) è una litografia su carta realizzata da Pablo Picasso nel 1949 in un'edizione di 50+5 esemplari.

La litografia raffigura una colomba bianca su sfondo nero, ampiamente considerata un simbolo di pace.

L'immagine fu utilizzata per illustrare un manifesto al Congresso della Pace di Parigi del 1949 e divenne anche un'immagine iconografica dell'epoca, nota come "La colomba della pace".

Un esemplare è conservato nelle collezioni della Tate Gallery e del MoMA.

Da allora, è considerata un capolavoro.

Picasso | The Dove / La Colombe, 1949 | MOMA

Spanish Art History and Sitemap

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

Spanish art was particularly influenced by Italy and France during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the subsequent eclipse of Spanish power under the Bourbon dynasty.

Gustaf Theodor Wallén | Genre painter

A painter of landscape, coastal scenes, portraits and sculpture, Gustaf Theodor Wallén was an artist of considerable renown achieving significant success in Paris and in Sweden.

He was born in Stockholm 14th December 1860.

Wallén studied at the Academy of Art under George von Rosen (1843-1923), a professor at the Academy from 1860-1908.

In 1887 Wallén won a travel award which enabled him to study in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and, under William Bouguereau at the Academie Julian.

Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius (Swedish, 1864-1939)

Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius (10 February 1864, Kalmar - 21 August 1939, Västervik) was a Swedish painter who specialized in landscapes and scenes with figures.

She was the daughter of businessman John Roosval and Johanna Kramer. Her father's family produced several notables in the world of the creative arts, including her maternal uncles, the art historian Johnny Roosval and early filmmaker Albin Roosval.

Roosval-Kallstenius grew up in Kalmar and was sent to Montreux after completing her girls' school, where she deepened her French skills and gained artistic inspiration.

After returning to Kalmar in June 1881, she was taught drawing and painting by Christine Sundberg, one of the first women to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.