Friday, March 15, 2024

Cézanne - Catena - Rembrandt - Stella

Paul Cézanne
Five Bathers
ca. 1877-78
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Paul Cézanne
Group of Bathers
ca. 1892-94
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Paul Cézanne
Les Grandes Baigneuses
ca. 1894-1906
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Paul Cézanne
Bathers
ca. 1902-1904
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Vincenzo Catena
Christ carrying the Cross
before 1531
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Vincenzo Catena
Christ presenting the Keys to St Peter
ca. 1520-25
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Vincenzo Catena
Holy Family with Saint
ca. 1498-1500
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Vincenzo Catena
Holy Family with St Anne
ca. 1520
oil on panel
San Diego Museum of Art

Rembrandt
Portrait of Johann Sylvius
1633
etching
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig

Rembrandt
Portrait of Pieter Haaringh
1655
etching, engraving and drypoint
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Rembrandt
Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh
1634
etching
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Rembrandt
Self Portrait with Saskia
1636
etching
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Frank Stella
Bampur
1965
acrylic and day-glo paint on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Frank Stella
Damascus Gate - Stretch Variation
1968
acrylic on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Frank Stella
Fortin de las Flores
1967
lithograph
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Frank Stella
Warka I
1973
acrylic paint, felt and cardboard on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Later in Pau

In the corner of your eye,
stranger, the shadow of
the Albigenses –

after
the Waterlooplein market,
I'm singing of you
to the unmatched
canvas shoe, to the
Amen that gets hawked off with it,
in the lot
that's vacant for eternity: singing
you away:

so that Baruch, who never
cried,
may grind
around you his
precision-beveled
uncomprehended, all-seeing
tear.

The ounce of truth in the depths of delusion:

two pans of the scale
come by it,
in turns, both at
the same time, conversing.

Heaved to heart-height,
my son,
the law wins.

– Paul Celan, from Glottal Stop, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh (2000)