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The Flayed Ox
''The Flayed Ox'' (''Le Bœuf écorché'') or ''The Slaughtered Ox'' is a 1925 oil on canvas painting by Chaïm Soutine, inspired by Slaughtered Ox, the painting of the same name by Rembrandt. Measuring 2.02 m by 1.14 m, it is now in the Museum of Grenoble, which bought it in 1932 from the galerie Pierre-Loeb.Notice du Bœuf écorché du musée de Grenoble sur le site ''navigart.fr''. It is part of a series of paintings produced on the same subject in the same era with the same title by Soutine, now split between different museums and private collections across the world, notably in Minneapolis and Amsterdam. Jean-Marc Rochette reproduced it several times in his autobigoraphical 2018 comic ''Ailefroide, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (; ; ; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture than representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. Early life Soutine was born Chaim-Iche Solomonovich Sutin, in Smilavichy (Yiddish: סמילאָוויץ, romanized: Smilovitz) in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus). He was Jewish and the 10th of 11 children born to parents Zalman (also reported as Solomon and Salomon) Moiseevich Sutin (1858–1932) and Sarah Sutina (née Khlamovna) (died in 1938). From 1910 to 1913 he studied in Vilnius at a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaughtered Ox
''Slaughtered Ox'', also known as ''Flayed Ox'', ''Side of Beef'', or ''Carcass of Beef'', is a 1655 oil on beech panel still life painting by Rembrandt. It has been in the collection of the Louvre in Paris since 1857. A similar painting is in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, possibly not created by Rembrandt himself but probably by one of his pupils, perhaps Carel Fabritius. ArtUK Other similar paintings by Rembrandt or more likely his circle are held by museums in Budapest and Philadelphia. The work follows in a tradition of artworks showing butchery, for example 's '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Art of Europe, Western art.Gombrich, p. 420. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings and several hundred drawings. Unlike most Dutch painters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portrait painting, portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt never went abroad but was considerably influenced by the work of the Italian Old Masters and Bentvueghels, Dutch and Flemish artists who had studied in Italy. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Grenoble
The Museum of Grenoble () is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art and for its collections of modern and contemporary art. Thanks to the action of Andry-Farcy, one of its curators in the interwar period, it is considered the very best museum of modern art in France. Its temporary rooms allow it to organize two exhibitions each year. History The Museum of Grenoble was founded on 16 February 1798 by Louis-Joseph Jay, well before other French provincial museums. That day, an order of the local administration detailed the creation of a ''museum'' in Grenoble, in which article 10 stipulated that « the citizen Louis-Joseph Jay is appointed curator of this museum. » In May of that year, the Interior Minister canceled the creation of the museum but a provisional authorization was obtained in December, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Tosatto
Guy Tosatto (born 22 October 1958) is a French art historian, museum curator and museum director. Previously heading museums in Nîmes and Nantes, he was director of the musée de Grenoble from September 2002 until his retirement in 2023. Life Early life Born in La Tronche, he studied art history at the University of Grenoble and in Paris. He worked alongside Marie-Claude Beaud at the Fondation Cartier in Paris before in 1985 becoming the first director of the musée départemental d'Art contemporain de Rochechouart in Haute-Vienne. 1990s to 2000s In October 1991 he and Robert Calle became co-directors of Carré d'art in Nîmes, before Tosatto became sole director from 1993 to 2000. He also became director of musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes in 1997, before leaving to become director of the musée d'Arts de Nantes in January 2001. A longtime friend of the German painte Sigmar Polke, in 1001 he and Alain Chevalier curated the exhibition « Sigmar Polke et la Révolution fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Rochette
Jean-Marc Rochette (born 23 April 1956) is a French painter, illustrator and comics creator. He is best known and recognized for the comic book series '' Edmond le Cochon'' and ''Le Transperceneige'', as well as for his illustrations of the literary classic '' Candide ou l'optimisme'' by Voltaire, and Homer, Homer's ''Odyssey''. Career Jean-Marc Rochette became known as a comic creator and illustrator with the story of '' Edmond le Cochon'', with Martin Veyron, and (in succession of Alexis (comics), Alexis) ''Le Transperceneige'', initially with Jacques Lob and later with Benjamin Legrand. ''Le Transperceneige'' received the Angoulême International Comics Festival Religious award, Angoulême Religious Award in 1985, which was the award's first year. Other comic stories include ''Claudius Vigne'', ''Napoléon et Bonaparte'' (Angoulême International Comics Festival Humour award, Angoulême Humour Award in 2001), ''Nemo le capitaine vengeur'' with Jean-Pierre Hugot, ''L'or et l'es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
