Leslie Roberts on ‘Fire in the Evening’ by Paul Klee
Paul Klee, Fire in the Evening, 1929, oil on cardboard, 13 3/8 x 13 1/4″, Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Joachim Jean Aberbach Fund, MoMA I saw Paul Klee’s Fire in the Evening last week, newly hung on the fifth floor of the renovated MoMA. I was reminded how very...
Lisa Hoke on Addie Herder
Addie Herder, White Machine, Collage, 1961-65, 13 ½ x 19 inches, Photo courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, NY I first saw Addie Herder’s work at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, then located on 23rd Street, in 2012. From that moment on, I was hooked. When considering a work of...
Suzanne Unrein on Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897, Oil on canvas, 51 x 79 inches Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy is a dream that will never wake up. A fairy tale of time, as in Eternity. Done in the style of post-impressionist, gothic regionalism, but like a cockeyed Egyptian...
Lilian Day Thorpe on Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël, Calais, 1954, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches At the time I was introduced to the Russian-French painter Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), I was deriving most of my creative inspiration from artists of the Italian and Northern Renaissance. I felt...