*Day 5 - Courtauld Collection

Courtauld Collection







Wassily KandinskyThe Red Circle 1939Oil on CanvasNatural and technological imagery is combined to playful effect, with the great red sun-like disk at the top right set above a tower or mast or balanced by the brightly colored mass of forms to the left. The twisting ladder at the centre defines a path through the encroaching white clouds. The work suggest an awareness of surrealist art. 







William NicholsonQueen Victoria 1897Lithographic reproduction of a hand colored woodcut





Chaim Soutine young woman in a white blouse 1923Oil on CanvasDistorted to expressively convey a heightened sense of emotional and psychological tension. the young woman's white blouse might provoke associations with purity and innocence.






Max PechsteinWomen By The Sea 1919Oil on CanvasOrientalism Bathers by mysterious shore. Intense color. work recalls episodes in pechsteins pre war career. Emulating Gauguin.





   Paul GauguinNevermore 1897Oil on CanvasOrientalismNevermore is a key work because it fully expresses the purpose and content of his paintings and reasons for being an artist, and in addition holds up a mirror to the all important chapter of his life in Tahiti. The picture is dominated by a full length reclining nude. She is readily identifiable and clearly a Tahitian girl.





Edgar DegasWoman at a windowOil on a paper mounted on linenFirst living french painter in whom Courtauld took a serious interest in. Focused on human figure instead of landscape. Shows how strong light appears to dissolve her features and the contours of her body.