“What a pity.” The final words of Paula Modersohn-Becker. She was just 31 when, on 20 November 1907, soon after the birth of her daughter Mathilde, she breathed her last. Paula had been restless her...

American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) was above all a portrait painter or, as she herself put it, a ‘collector of souls’. She painted the people around her, from her children and lovers to MoMA

Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951) & Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952) met during the turbulent years that followed the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Their paths crossed in Moscow. Kobro – a Russian

Originally a member of the Arte Povera movement, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) soon went his own way. From the 1970s he became famous for his whimsical, colourful embroideries which he

Just as the Hague School artists left their studios in town to paint the surrounding countryside, so the artists of the next generation set off to explore the life of the city. Starting in the 1880s

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