Montmajour, Vincent Van Gogh Year 1888
Technique Ink and chalk on paper/Black chalk, brown and black ink



A southern landscape rendered in brown ink, and accentuated here and there with black chalk. The Montmajour cloister at Arles, from which the title comes, can be seen to the left. However, the most striking element in the drawing is the central mass of rocks jutting out above the horizon. To the right, the eye wanders into the distance, over farm land with a single bush. Vincent van Gogh produced this rather large drawing around 1888, while living in Arles. He signed the work below right, with his usual signature: 'Vincent'.

Crouching women with Left arm forward 1918, Albertina, Vienna.

Rembrandt Van Rijn ( 1606 - 1669 )

Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched with white, 184x246mm



 

Pen and brown ink with grey wash, 127x95mm

Born to a family of millers in Leiden, Rembrandt left university at 14 to pursue a career as an artist. The decision turned out to be a good one since after serving his apprenticeship in Amsterdam he was singled out by Constantijn Huygens, the most influential patron in Holland.

In 1634 he married Saskia van Uylenburgh. In 1649, following Saskia's death from tuberculosis, Hendrickje Stoffels entered Rembrandt's household and six years later they had a son.

Rembrandt's success in his early years was as a portrait painter to the rich denizens of Amsterdam at a time when the city was being transformed from a small nondescript port into the economic capital of the world. His historical and religious paintings also gave him wide acclaim.

Despite being known as a portrait painter Rembrandt used his talent to push the boundaries of painting. This direction made him unpopular in the later years of his career as he shifted from being the talk of the town to becoming adrift in the Amsterdam art scene and criticised by his peers.

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

Brush and brown wash with some white bodycolour, 246x203mm

Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Pen and brown iron-gall ink, on paperwashed brown, 188x164mm

At The British Museum

A Master of the erotic thème, as he was of many thèmes and styles,
Pablo Picasso did his most erotic series of drawings in 1968 at the age of 87.
This period includes the finest of the Master's erotic works, yet he exhibited another erotic series
painted when he was 90.
Artists seen with their models, bearded bull-like satyrs and women accompanied by saylors were favorit 
subjects to be interpreted in picasso's free style.