Posts Categorized "Paintings"

Starting tomorrow, a golden Virgin and Child from Duccio di Buoninsegna’s workshop will be adorning the Getty Center paintings galleries (North Pavilion, Gallery 201). Paintings by Duccio are astoundingly rare—there are fewer than 15 in existence, the Maestà in Siena being the most magisterial. Much in demand even in his own day, Duccio had to [...]

 
Tags: Christmas, Duccio, Hearst Castle, Italian art, on exhibit, paintings conservation, paintings loans, panel paintings, religious art, William Randolph Hearst

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Museum-quality paintings by Édouard Manet still remaining in private hands are exceptionally rare, and the Getty Museum is extremely fortunate in its most recent addition to the paintings collection: Manet’s Portrait of Madame Brunet, which goes on view at the Getty Center on Tuesday, December 13. A compelling work with a fascinating genesis, exhibition history, and [...]

 
Tags: 19th century painting, Diego Velázquez, Édouard Manet, French art, Getty Museum collection, Jacques Joseph Tissot, paintings collection, portraits, recent acquisitions

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In George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, which arrived at the Museum in October as a temporary anonymous loan, horses are sympathetically portrayed within the bucolic landscape of the English countryside. The overriding mood is idyllic, as a small coterie of well-bred mares and foals congregate harmoniously in the placid atmosphere of the stud farm. When [...]

 
Tags: animals, animals in art, British art, Brood Mares and Foals, George Stubbs, Getty Museum collection, horses, loans, paintings loans, Paulus Potter, Pietro Cipriani, Sir Joshua Reynolds

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In March, one of the most elegant women at the Museum was forcibly escorted out of the galleries. I was there and saw the whole thing. Princess Leonilla, who’d been on constant view since the Getty Center opened in 1997, was wheeled away (very gently—here is evidence) to make room for a new arrival, J.M.W. [...]

 
Tags: Franz Xaver Winterhalter, paintings collection, Princess Leonilla

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Artists’ studios aren’t generally thought of as meditative places. The stereotype is one of disarray—an image comes to mind of paintbrushes, sculpting tools, or other instruments of the trade strewn about a room, as if to signal an unruly creative process. But the studios of certain mid-20th-century Los Angeles artists were actually quite Zen. After [...]

 
Tags: Buddhism, ceramics, John McLaughlin, mingei, modern art, Pacific Standard Time, Peter Voulkos, PSTinLA, Zen

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The life of a painting can be pretty unpredictable. Some are constantly on the move, reaching different parts of the world as they travel through time. When I started at the Getty as an intern, I had only recently returned from a long voyage to Paris. During my first week here, a fellow European traveler [...]

 
Tags: 18th-century art, cicisbeo, Francesco Guardi, Getty Museum collection, Grand Tour, Pietro Longhi, recent acquisitions, Rosalba Carriera, Venice

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In the ocean, a crosscurrent runs across the main flow, stirring things up. Similarly, you can see different artistic movements, crossing each other from a variety of directions, in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970, which opens Saturday at the Getty Center. The exhibition features more than 70 objects [...]

 
Tags: Crosscurrents, De Wain Valentine, Helen Lundeberg, John Mason, Mary Corse, Norman Zammitt, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA

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Where is the line between private and public? Each situation has a different answer—and sometimes many different possible answers. As an example, take this painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec portrays a woman seen from above and behind as she sits in a chair. Her left arm and breast are bared. She gazes into the [...]

 
Tags: French art, Getty Museum collection, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Masterpiece of the Week, privacy, prostitution, Question of the Week

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When posh Parisians in the mid-18th century greeted the day, their morning ritual wasn’t anything like our hasty shower, breakfast, and dash out the door. Their toilette, or ritual of rising and dressing, was an hours-long activity of luxurious pampering, primping, wardrobe assessment, and even worldly affairs. Yes, it was customary for elite Parisians to [...]

 
Tags: 18th-century art, French art, la toilette, Paris: Life & Luxury

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