Venus

Venus Today

#89031     50″ X 72″ 

▪ Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1538, Uffizi, Florence
▪ Gauguin: “Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)”, 1892. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
▪ Picasso: “Still Life”, 1918. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The replacement of heavy Italian drapes by a shoji screen painted with a Mondrian (1872-1944) screen suggest that the Venus of Urbino has taken her couch to Japan. The Paul Gauguin Tahitian landscape with figures and the Pablo Picasso still life remind us of the frenzy these past few years that the Japanese have shown for buying the best works of these painters, when they could be found.

Apart from iconography, the four major elements of Chen’s painting are filled with lovely color games and interesting compositional structures.

 

– Lawrance Jeppson

  • Venus Today

    Venus Today #89031     50″ X 72″  ▪ Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1538, Uffizi, Florence ▪ Gauguin: “Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)”, 1892. National Gallery of […]

  • Eternal Art Patron

    Eternal Art Patron #92026      48″ X 36″       oc Caravaggio: “Bacchus” (c.1595) Gauguin: “Portrait of Fritz SchuoKlud” (1894) Degas: “The Dance Class” (1873-76) Between dancers exercising […]

  • Odalisque in Paris

    Odalisque in Paris #92013      36″ X 48 ”      ac Renoir: “Odalisque” (1870) Modigliani: “Nude on a Blue Cushion” (1917) Braque: “The Pink Tablecloth” (1931 or 1933) […]

  • Venus A La Matisse

    Venus A La Matiss #89034     50″ X 72″      ac Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1538, Uffizi, Florence Matisse: “Decorative Figure”. National Museum of Modern Art, Paris […]

  • Venus Fauvist-Cubist

     Venus Fauvist-Cubist #89033     50″ X 72″      ac Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1538. Uffizi, Florence Picasso: “La Statuaire”, 1925. Collection Mr. And Mrs. Daniew Saidenberg. NY […]

  • African Venus

    African Venus #89032     50″ X 72″      ac  Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1538. Uffizi, Florence  H. Rousseau: “The sleeping Gypsy”, 1897. Museum of Modern Art, NY […]

  • Venus and Shogun

    Venus and Shogun #78009      50″ X 72″      ac  Titian: “Venus of Urbino”, 1638. Uffizi, Florence   Kuniyoshi: “Tamaya Shimbei and Ugai Kujuro”, Ukiyo-e Shunko: “Actor […]

  • American Dream

    American Dream #77033     50″ X 72 ”      ac Giorgione: “Sleeping Venus”, 1905 Cezanne: “Apples and Oranges”, 1900 – 05 Vasari wrote “Giorgione began to give his […]