This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour illustrations, showcases masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art with work by Delacroix, Decamps, Berche re, Bridgman, Ziem, Ge ro me, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many others. Text in English and French.

Splendid Isolation is a group exhibition that seeks to explore the particular conditions of life in solitude, and more precisely the creative impulses it can nourish. Bringing together an intergenerational and international group of artists, it centres on the artistic output that is induced by life under self-imposed or forced restrictions and foregrounds herein a number of positions. They include working conditions in which artists have been brutally cut off from their environment, have opte...

This publication, the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia (1879-1953), includes paintings and selected drawings dating from 1940 into 1952.

During the war years, while still residing in the south of France, Picabia was primarily occupied by figural subjects - multi figure allegories, female nudes, and glamorous female "portraits" - painted in bold illusionistic relief. Notorious even in his lifetime, most of these works are now known to have adapte...

Collected Stories is Vanriets dertiende individuele tentoonstelling in Galerie De Zwarte Panter de samenwerking begon reeds in 1973. Ze verzamelt vier thema's: van schilderijen geïnspireerd door klassieke beelden uit de Glypthotek in München, via een reeks intimistische huisscènes (de schaduwen van catalpa's in de tuin) vermengd met de vijandigheid van de buitenwereld (de brandstichting in een asielcentrum in Bilzen), dan de epische rouw na de Superga-vliegramp in 1949 nabij Turijn, waarbi...