Rembrandt: The
Late Works
Having already suffered the early loss
of his wife and
three of their children,
Rembrandt’s later years were
burdened with bankruptcy,
acrimonious legal proceeding…
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
- Pablo Picasso
The Portraits
7 October 2015 – 10 January 2016.
Drawing inspiration from
British & Mid- Century art and literature,
his real and imagined travels to
North Africa, and biblical
scenes; ev…
“Creativity takes courage."
— Henri Matisse
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
— Edward Hopper
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
— Alberto Giacometti
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
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