Sunday

This is a detail from Aux Clayes - Geranium sur une table bleue by Édouard Vuillard, 1932. I really love paintings of domestic interiors and Vuillard’s…

Jun 23 •

This is Farm Garden with Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt, 1907 (so round about the same time as The Kiss). I love Klimt’s Austrian landscapes and paintings…

Jun 9 •

the vicar's wife brings the party

May 26 •

This is At The Dacha, Summer, painted by Sergei Vinogradov (1839-1938, what a period of Russian history to have lived through). Vinogradov spent WWI at…

May 12 •

Apr 28 •

This is The Balcony Room by German artist Adolph Menzel, painted in 1845. His drawings and paintings of historical events were much admired and he was…

Apr 14 •

Happy Easter! This is Marie-Adelaïde of France dressed in the Turkish style, painted by Jean-Étienne Liotard in 1753. It’s in the Uffizi in Florence. I…

Mar 31 •

shells, hope, courage, love

Mar 17 •

I don’t actually have anything to say - I just think this is the perfect painting to lose yourself in for a little while on a Sunday morning. It’s…

Mar 3 •

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