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Constable's White Horse (Frick Diptych) by KENTRIDGE / NG
Category: Art and Design | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (1776-1837) depicts a tow-horse being ferried across the river Stour in Suffolk, just below Flatford Lock at a point where the tow-path switched banks. Constable, who described the scene as "as placid representation of a serene, grey morning, summer," went on in ...Show more
Fragonard's Progress of Love by Alan Hollinghurst; Xavier F. Salomon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-Honoré Fragonard's (1732-1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece. The paintings were commissioned in 1771 for the comte ...Show more
Monet's Vétheuil in Winter by Susan Grace Galassi; Olafur Eliasson
Category: Art | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an essay by Susan Grace Galassi, curator emerita at The Frick Collection, paired with a contribution from renowned artist Olafur Eliasson Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Winter (1878-79), painted during the artist's first winter in the village, depicts his new ...Show more
Titian's Pietro Aretino by Francine Prose; Xavier F. Salomon
Category: Art | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's most personal and revealing portraits. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considera ...Show more
Vermeer's Mistress and Maid by James Ivory; Margaret Iacono
Category: Art | Series: Frick Diptych Ser.
The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is given dramatic tension in this masterful painting of two women in a mysterious moment of crisis. The artist seldom, if ever, surpassed the subtly varied effects of light seen here as ...Show more
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