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Seurat Les Poseuses

2020 Art

Hanging in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Seurat’s Les Poseuses is probably his least-known painting. It is also a picture brimming with codes and hidden meanings. It shows three nudes in the artist’s studio, but included in the background is Seurat’s famous masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Why is it t ...here? What is it trying to say? Why two pictures at once? Waldemar Januszczak investigates. Show More

Series: The Art Mysteries

Gauguin Vision After The Sermon

2020 Art

The Vision After the Sermon, also known as Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, is a painting full of symbolism and mystery. But what does Gauguin’s famous work have to do with a 17-year-old girl called Madeleine, with Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, and with sumo wrestlers?
Waldemar Januszczak reveals all as he investigates Gauguin’s epic reli ...gious painting about good and evil, temptation and desire. Show More

Series: The Art Mysteries

Cezanne Card Players

2020 Art

One of Cezanne’s best-known pictures, but it is also one of his most mysterious. Why did the so-called father of modern art paint two old men hunched over a game of cards? What is the picture trying to tell us?
By exploring Cezanne’s puzzling religious beliefs and his passion for Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of Provence, Waldemar Jan ...uszczak uncovers the surprising secrets of a haunting masterpiece. Show More

Series: The Art Mysteries

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