Blog 2, MFA:Modern art, mostly

This second blog deals with wandering through some of the modern art of the MFA, something I haven't done in quite a long time.  I was amazed at some of the  iconic art I had missed for years.
It was delightful.

Jean-Leon Gerome

"Moorish Bath" 1870

I've always admired Gerome, even though  some of his art is both titillating and sexist. 

But his technique is perfect, and his canvases glow.  

Maybe that is ice-cold water the slave is holding?

Jean-Leon Gerome

"Pigment Seller in North Africa" 1895

Arnold Bocklin

"Odysseus and Polyphemus"  

My first sight of this wonderful painting.  My only experience of Bocklin is his

"Isle of the Dead" reproduced on the cover of the Rachmaninoff "Isle of the Dead",

recorded by Fritz Reiner and Chicago Symphony. 

Max Beckmann

"Euretta Rathbone"  1947

Pablo Picasso

"Standing Figure" 1908

Jackson Pollock

"Troubled Queen"  1945

Hmmmmmm,,,,,

Pablo Picasso

"Verres, pipe, carte a jouer" 1914

Pablo Picasso

"Portrait of a Woman"  1910

Amazing that the three Picasso pictures above were painted 

about 6 years apart.  Great times in Paris!

Hyman Bloom 

"Older Jew with Torah"  1945

Max Beckmann

"Double Portrait"  1946

Sir William Orpen

"Summer Afternoon (Artist in his Studio with a Model) 1913

I think my first encounter with this artist, about whom I know zero.

but it is remarkable, especially the body language of the two figures. 

Bust of George IV, 1830

Great metalwork, couldn't find the creator. 

Alberto Giacometti

"Head of Diego" 1961

I think I have mentioned that Giacometti seems to be the 

artist with the most fakes of his artwork out there. 

Alberto Giacometti

"Annette" 1953

Katharina Grosse

Mural

Two vast works in a room by themselves. 

Jackson Pollock

"Mural"

This was originally in Peggy Guggenheim's apartment in Manhattan.  She commissioned

him to do this on the wall. I am wondering if that is the time

he is reported to have urinated in her fireplace during a party!