Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France important works include: Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Renoir, 1876; Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, Manet, 1862–3; The Artist’s Studio, Courbet, 1855; The Card Players, Cézanne, 1894–5; Olympia, Manet, 1863; The Gleaners, Millet, 1857; Whistler’s Mother, Whistler, 1871; The Church at Auvers, van Gogh, 1890; Apples and Oranges, Cézanne, c.1899; Orpheus, Moreau, 1866.
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan important works include: Parisiennes in Algerian Costume, Renoir, 1872; Conversation, Pissarro, c.1881; On the Boat, Monet, 1887; The Loving Cup, Rossetti, 1867; Salome at the Prison, Moreau, c.1873–6.
Tate Britain, London, UK important works include: Ophelia, Millais, 1851–2; Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth, Turner, exh. 1842; The Awakening Conscience, Hunt, 1853; Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River), Constable, 1816–17; O the Roast Beef of Old England (The Gate of Calais), Hogarth, 1748.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands important works include: The Bedroom, van Gogh, 1888; Wheatfield with Crows, van Gogh, 1890; Still Life with Bible, van Gogh, 1885; The Potato Eaters, van Gogh, 1885; The Pink Peach Tree, van Gogh, 1888.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US important works include: Man with a Guitar, Braque, 1911–12; The Starry Night, van Gogh, 1889; Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso, 1907; Broadway Boogie-Woogie, Mondrian, 1942–3; The Dance, Matisse, 1909; Campbell’s Soup Cans, Warhol, 1962; Number 31, Pollock, 1950; Bather, Cézanne, 1885–7; Portrait of Juan Gris, Modigliani, 1915; The Empire of Light, Magritte, c.1950–4.
Tate Modern, London, UK important works include: The Snail, Matisse, 1953; Weeping Woman, Picasso, 1937; Marilyn Diptych, Warhol, 1962; Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Dalí, 1937; Summertime Number 9A, Pollock, 1948; Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, Mondrian, 1937–42; The Sick Child, Munch, 1907; Red on Maroon, Rothko, 1959; The Three Dancers, Picasso, 1925; Cossacks, Kandinsky, 1910–11; Swinging, Kandinsky, 1925; The Kiss, Rodin, 1901–4.
The Courtauld Museum, London, UK important works include: A Bar at the Folies Bergère, Manet, 1882; Two Dancers on a Stage, Degas, c.1874; Mont Sainte-Victoire, Cézanne, c.1887; Nevermore, Gauguin, 1897; La Loge, Renoir, 1874; Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, van Gogh, 1889.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, US important works include: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Turner, 1835; The Dance at the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889–90; The Large Bathers, Renoir, 1887; Nude Descending a Staircase, Duchamp, 1912; Japanese Bridge and Waterlilies, Monet, c.1899; The Bathers, Cézanne, 1898–1905; Prometheus Bound, Rubens, 1611–12; Pietà, El Greco, 1571–6; Epiphany, Bosch, c.1475–80.
The Frick Collection, New York, US important works include: St. Francis in the Desert, Giovanni Bellini, c.1475–8; The Four Seasons, Boucher, 1755; The White Horse, Constable, 1819; The Pond, Corot, c.1868–70; St. John the Evangelist, della Francesca, c.1454–69; The Forge, Goya, c.1815–20; Purification of the Temple, El Greco, c.1600; Comtesse d’Haussonville, Ingres, 1845; Woman Sewing by Lamplight, Millet, 1870–2; Elizabeth, Lady Taylor, Reynolds, c.1780; Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour, Turner, c.1803; Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor, van Eyck, early 1440s.
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany important works include: Columba Altarpiece, van der Weyden, c.1455; Self-portrait with Fur Trimmed Robe, Dürer, 1500; Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, Tintoretto, c.1555; The Canigiani Holy Family, Raphael, c.1505–6; Susanna and the Elders, van Dyck, c.1622–3; Entombment of Christ, Fra Angelico, c.1438–40.
The Wallace Collection, London, UK important works include: The Swing, Fragonard, 1767; The Laughing Cavalier, Hals, 1624; Madame de Pompadour, Boucher, 1759; Voulez-vous triompher des Belles? Watteau, c.1714–17; Venice: the Grand Canal from the Palazzo Flangini to San Marcuola, Canaletto, c.1740–50; The Lady with a Fan, Velázquez, c.1640; Titus, the Artist’s Son, Rembrandt, c.1657.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US important works include: The Bath, Cassatt, 1891–2; Fête Champêtre, Watteau, 1718–21; Seascape, Calm Weather, Manet, 1864–5; Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Renoir, 1881; The Bay of Marseilles, view from L’Estaque, Cézanne, 1885; Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Seurat, 1884–6; At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892; Why are you angry? (No te aha oe Riri), Gauguin, 1896; The Old Guitarist, Picasso, 1903; Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension, Malevich, 1915.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US important works include: Red Balloon, Klee, 1922; The Tilled Field, Miró, 1923–4; Composition 8; Kandinsky, 1923; Nude, Modigliani, 1917; Accordionist, Picasso, 1911; Still Life, Flask, Glass and Jug, Cézanne, c.1877; Le Moulin de la Galette, Picasso, 1900; The Hermitage at Pontoise, Pissarro, c.1867.
Glossary
Abstract art that does not represent anything from the real world, but instead explores shapes, forms and colors.