Igor Stravinsky: Serenade in A (1925)/ Maria Yudina
Woman self portraits 1900-1950
Curators: Bob Van Blommestein & Floris Guntenaar
Anna Alma Tadema, 1900
Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) was a British artist, daughter of painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. She created drawings and paintings of portraits, interior scenes, flowers and buildings.
Elin Danielson Gambogi, 1903
Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 – 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "painter sisters' generation".
Paula Modersohn Becker, 1906
Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 – November 21, 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity. She is becoming recognized as the first female painter to paint female nudes.
Sonja Delaunay, 1908
Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris and, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.
Elin Danielson Gambogi, 1910
Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 – 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "painter sisters' generation".
Yelizaveta Kruglikova, 1910
Elizaveta Sergeyevna Kruglikova (19 January 1865, Saint Petersburg - 21 July 1941, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian-Soviet painter, etcher, silhouettist and monotypist.
Käthe Kollwitz, 1910
Käthe (Schmidt) Kollwitz (German pronunciation (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist, who worked with drawing, etching, lithography, woodcuts, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger, and war on the working class
Elisabeth Chaplin, 1912
Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France – 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style. She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence. She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection
Dame Laura Night, 1913
Dame Laura Knight, (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition and who embraced English Impressionism.
Maria Wiik, 1917
Maria Katarina Wiik (3 August 1853 – 19 June 1928) was a Finnish painter. Wiik was born in Helsinki as the daughter of Jean Wiik. She studied art 1874-1875 at the Drawing School of Helsinki. In 1875, she continued her art studies in Paris under Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian from 1875
Helene Schjerfbeck, 1918
Helene Schjerfbeck (July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically.
Romaine Brooks, 1923
Romaine Brooks, born Beatrice Romaine Goddard (May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970), was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray.
Suzanne Valadon, 1927
Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French painter and artists' model who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
Ángeles Santos Torroella, 1927
She studied art in Valladolid with Cellino Perrotti. Her first exhibition was at the age of 16 in the Atheneum in Valladolid. She did not become known until 1929 when she presented her painting 'Un mundo' at the Autumn Salon of Madrid.
Marie Laurencin, 1927
Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Eileen Agar, 1927
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and American mother, Agar moved with her family to London in 1911. After attending Heathfield St Mary's School, she studied, beginning in 1919, at the Byam Shaw School of Art.
Paule Vézelay, 1927
Paule Vézelay (1892–1984) was a British painter. Before the First World War she trained for a short period at the Slade and then at the London School of Art. She first gained recognition as a figurative painter, had her first London show in 1921 and was invited to join the London Group in 1922
Tamara de Lempicka, 1929
Tamara Lempicka, commonly known as Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Influenced by Cubism, Lempicka became the leading representative of the Art Deco style across two continents
Doris Zinkeisen, 1929
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 January 1991) was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design.
Leonora Carrington, ca. 1937–38
Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s
Lies Guntenaar -Koppers, 1938
Lies Guntenaar (1921-2016) was trained Graphic Design at the Rietveld Academy (formerly IvKNO) and made tapestries for churches and public buildings. Her works are in private collections (Netherlands and Switzerland), corporate collections including the Hilton Group and museum colllecties of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the National Collection. Her work was exhibited in Amsterdam, The Hague, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Braunschweig and Tel Aviv.
Charley Toorop, 1940
Charley Toorop (March 24, 1891 – November 5, 1955) was a Dutch painter and lithographer. Her full name was Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop.
Frida Kahlo, 1940
Frida Kahlo, Mexico's greatest female artist, painted brutally honest self portraits that reveal her psychological response to adversity. She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City.
Priscilla Warren Roberts, 1946
American painter (1916-2001) Also Known as: Priscilla Warren Roberts, Priscilla W. Roberts Active in: Wilton, Connecticut, New York, NY.
Anna Zinkeisen, 1944
Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, the daughter of Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant. The family moved to Middlesex in 1909. Anna and her sister Doris were privately educated at home before they attended the Harrow School of Art from where they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools.
Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht, 1948
Gisèle d’Ailly-Van Waterschoot van der Gracht maakte van haar leven een kunstwerk. In de oorlog gaf ze onderdak aan onderduikers, na de oorlog aan een kunstenaarsgemeenschap.