Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 –1912)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema

Spring
1894
oil on canvas
178.4 × 80.3 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RC9

Spring is an 1894 oil-on-canvas painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, which has been in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, since 1972. The painting relates the Victorian custom of children collecting flowers on May Day back to an Ancient Roman spring festival, perhaps Cerealia or Floralia or Ambarvalia, although the details depicted in the painting do not correspond to any single Roman festival. It was the inspiration for the scene of Julius Caesar's triumphal entry into Rome in the 1934 film Cleopatra. 

Rembrandt
(1606 -1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

Flora
1634
Oil on panel
125 x 101
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/43371?lng=en

Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)
 

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Spring
1948
Oil on canvas
122.5 x 214 cm
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/spotlight-on-spring/

 Damien Hirst
(b. 1965)

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst

Spring Blossoms Blooming
2019
Oil on panel
Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich
https://www.muca.eu/en/cherry-blossoms/
Hirst's "Spring Blossoms Blooming" from 2019 was on display in the "The Weight of Things" exhibition in the MUCA Halls from 26 October 2023 to 24 November 2024.

The "Cherry Blossoms" series by Damien Hirst comprises a total of 107 large-format canvases. With this series, Hirst reinterprets the traditional and popular theme of flower depiction with cheerful irony.

Berthe Morisot
(1841 - 1895)

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot

Peasant Girl Among Tulips
1890
Oil on canvas
65 x 73 cm
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, United States

http://collections.dixon.org/objects/282/peasant-girl-among-tulips?ctx=75edbdc11d560584df65b11b942a60cd9e4ef19c&idx=1 

Sandro Botticelli 
(c. 1445 - 1510)

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli

Primavera (Spring)
Late 1470s
tempera on panel
202 x 314 cm
Uffizi, Florence
https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/botticelli-spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli)

René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte

The Sixteenth of September
1956
115 x 88 cm
Oil on canvas
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-sixteenth-of-september

 

 

Ending this month with one of my all-time favourite artist. 

All the paintings posted this month can be seen in Antwerp, my hometown, 

in the recently renovated museum of fine art, the KMSKA.