Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Anquetin - Amman - Basquiat - Aertsen

Louis Anquetin
Elegant Woman at the Élysée, Montmartre
1888
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Louis Anquetin
Portrait of a Man
1889
pastel on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Louis Anquetin
The Outsider
ca. 1895
drawing (print study)
Art Institute of Chicago

Louis Anquetin
The Outsider
ca. 1895
lithograph
British Museum

Jost Amman
Warrior
ca. 1570
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Jost Amman
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
before 1591
drawing
Kunsthaus Zürich

Jost Amman
Titan carrying Boulder
ca. 1565
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich

Jost Amman
Apollo
ca. 1580
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Kings of Egypt II
1982
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Kings of Egypt III
1982
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
1982
acrylic and oil-stick on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Dog Bite / Ax to Grind
1983
acrylic on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pieter Aertsen
The Pancake Shop
1560
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pieter Aertsen
The Continence of Scipio
1562
drawing
British Museum

Pieter Aertsen
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
ca. 1555-60
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pieter Aertsen
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
1553
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Taller To-day

Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings,
Walking together in a windless orchard
Where the brook runs over the gravel, far from the glacier.

Nights come bringing the snow, and the dead howl
Under headlands in their windy dwelling
Because the Adversary put too easy questions
On lonely roads.

But happy now, though no nearer each other,
We see farms lighted all along the valley;
Down at the mill-shed hammering stops
And men go home.

Noises at dawn will bring
Freedom for some, but not this peace
No bird can contradict: passing but here, sufficient now
For something fulfilled this hour, loved or endured.

– W.H. Auden (1928)