the hipster as artist.

John Singer Sargent, Madame X(Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-1884.

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

05/30/12

peacesofmind:

I adore this painting. I saw it in the Louvre a few summers ago and fell in love. I love his face, and the skull behind him, and his foot up on his knee, and the way he looks right at you. hmm :)

I adore this painting. I saw it in the Louvre a few summers ago and fell in love. I love his face, and the skull behind him, and his foot up on his knee, and the way he looks right at you. hmm :)

05/30/12

peira:

Felix Vallotton: Portrait of Emile Bertrand (1886) via The Athenaeum

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05/27/12

loverofbeauty:

Konstantin Somov - Autoportrait (1898)

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05/23/12

beardbriarandrose:

Auguste Rodin, Paris, ca 1862 [ab. 22y] -by Charles Hippolyte Aubry

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05/10/12

“

You can be a museum, or you can be modern, but you can’t be both.

Gertrude Stein.

05/1/12

Helene Schjerfbeck

05/1/12

poboh:

Louis Valtat, Self Portrait, 1892.

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04/30/12

loquaciousconnoisseur:

Joaquín Sorolla

Self Portrait (1904)

Museo Sorolla, Madrid, Spain

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04/29/12

Horace.

04/16/12

Accent theme by Handsome Code

For all those eighteenth & nineteenth-century folk who never quite made it to Williamsburg.

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