It is one of the most reproduced and replicated art.  This famous painting was made back 1889 when Van Gogh was in the Asylum at Saint-Remy. It was said to illustrate what he saw from his small window inside his mental institution room and painted it during the day from memory.  Starry Night is considered to be his greatest masterpiece, his magnum opus.  Today, you can visit Museum of Art in New York City to view the original. However, our online gallery has reproduction in canvas of Starry Night if you want to purchase your own copy.

Another painting drew much controversy in the late 1980’s. Van Gogh painted a series of Sunflower paintings back in the 1888.  Some of it was used to decorate his friend, another great artist, Paul Gauguin’s new studio during those times and it depicted sunflowers as the main subject of those paintings.  In March of 1987, The Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was auctioned at Christie’s and it fetched an outstanding amount of $39,921,750. A Japanese insurance tycoon bought the painting and it can be viewed at the Seiki Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo Japan. However, there was a rumor of the authenticity of the painting.  There are people who insist that it just an Emile Schuffenecker forgery.

Anyway, it set a record for the highest amount for a work of art but was broken after a few months by another Van Gogh’s work entitled Irises for $53.9M at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

Vincent Van Gogh probably did not imagine that his works would influence modern art and inspire other people in writing songs and poems long after he is gone.  If he had any idea at all, I doubt that he will take his own life.  While his life story is sad, his work of art spoke of beauty and so it is of no surprise at all that more and more people want a reproduction painting of all his work even up to this day. Check all our Van Gogh’s reproduction art prints in canvas.

Just like the other leading impressionists of their time, Renoir studied at Charles Gleyre studio where he met other famous painters such as Monet, Sisley and Bazille.  With such illustrious company, how can he not produce amazing results?

Renoir was noted for his use of saturated colors along with vibrant light and his use of people as subject of his paintings.  He loved to capture candid and intimate situations.

One of his famous Impressionist works is the “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette“ also known as “Bal Du Moulin de la Galette“.  He beautifully captured a scene where there was a crowd of people at a popular dance garden near his home in 1876.  This particular painting was sold for $78.1M in 1990.  It is one of the most expensive Renoir paintings ever sold posthumously.

Renoir broke from the Impressionist movement in the mid 1880s to focus on figure paintings.  The works of Raphael and those Renaissance masterpieces inspired him.  This is the period where his subject would primarily be on female nudity like the one he did in 1887 called “The Large Bathers” which the original can be found in Philadelphia Museum of Art and “After The Bath” which he painted in 1888.

These Renoir masterpieces would be great gifts for any occasion especially this coming Christmas.  The good thing these days, you need not spend million of dollars to acquire such beauty as you can find them at our reproduction gallery.  Most of popular Renoir paintings have been beautifully reproduced here.  Find something you like this early and so it can be delivered to you just in time for the coming Holiday season.

Degas
Master of French art

12 December 2008 – 22 March 2009

Exhibition hours
10.00 am – 5.00 pm daily
plus Saturday evening 5.00 – 7.00 pm (13 December 2008 – 14 March 2009)

 Location

National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600

For the first time audiences in Australia have the opportunity to see an exhibition devoted to one of the most significant and admired French artists of the nineteenth century, Edgar Degas.

The National Gallery of Australia presents important paintings and sculptures by Degas, as well as drawings, experimental monotypes and photographs. The exhibition draws works from major Degas collections, including Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The exhibition highlights the artist’s favourite themes of modern life in Paris, such as portraits, horseracing, the ballet, laundresses and bathers, and demonstrates his skill as a master painter, sculptor and

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Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas  was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art.

Early in his career, his ambition was to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

 Visit nga.gov.au/Degas here