Claude Monet | The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, 1874

"The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal)" was created in 1874 by French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Impressionism style.

The painting is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.

Title: The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal)

Author: Claude Monet - French Impressionist painter (1840-1926);

Geography: Probably made in Netherlands, Europe;

Van Gogh | Reminiscence of Brabant, 1890

This landscape was painted during one of Van Gogh's difficult periods. He was in the hospital in Saint-Rémy.

When he had to stay indoors but wanted to paint, he had to find subject matter.

Title: Reminiscence of Brabant

Artist: Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, (1853-1890)

Date: Saint-Rémy: March-April, 1890

Dimensions: 29.0 x 36.5 cm

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Current location: Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum

Claude Monet | Low Tide at Pourville near Dieppe, 1882

This is one of several views Monet painted of the cliffs and sand flats of Pourville, a small fishing village on the Normandy coast of France.

The title indicates a momentary stage in the continuous cycle of nature, just as the quick, spontaneous application of paint reflects Monet's efforts to capture shifting effects of light, weather, and tide.

Claude Monet | The Village of La Roche-Blond, Sunset, 1889

'The Village of La Roche-Blond, Sunset' was created in 1889 by French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Impressionism style.

Title: The Village of La Roche-Blond, Sunset

Artist: Claude Monet - French Impressionist painter, (1840-1926)

Date: 1889

Claudia Cohen (Californian sculptor)

Claudia Cohen is an artist of ceramic and bronze sculptures with a studio in Sausalito, California.

Her recent paintings bring a similar narrative vision to another dimension. Claudia's works bring to life human nature in ways that deconstruct pre-conceived notions about humanity and stimulates the observers imagination.

Described as comic-surrealism, her style blends objective reality with mythology and flights of fancy.

Her use of uniquely colored patinas along with this magic-surreal vision are the reasons behind her immense popularity in the Bay Area art community and beyond.

Claude Monet | The Grande Creuse by the Bridge at Vervy, 1889

“The Grande Creuse by the Bridge at Vervy” is an evocative landscape painting by the renowned Impressionist artist Claude Monet, created in 1889.

This artwork is an exemplar of the Impressionism movement, which celebrates the play of light and color in nature.

Monet’s work often features outdoor scenes that convey the transient beauty of the environment through his distinctive brushwork and vibrant chromatic palette.

As a landscape painting, this piece continues the tradition of rendering the natural world, which has been a subject of artistic interpretation for centuries.

Henri Matisse | Reader in purple dress, 1898

Title: Reader in purple dress

Author: Henri Matisse - French Fauvist painter and sculptor (1869-1954)

Date: 1898

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: cm 45 x 36

Current location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims (France - Reims)