Some time just before his death, a magazine asked Marcel Proust to make a list of his eight favourite French paintings at the Louvre. The eclectic list included a Watteau – he couldn’t decide between L´Embarquement and L´Indifferent – a Renoir, Corot’s La Barque de Dante (though he wasn’t sure if La Cathédrale de Chartres [...]

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Henri Matisse was known for being the enemy of Pablo Picasso, and the father of Fauvism. Talking about Matisse’s is to talk about the white doves and the intense and violent red he used in his paintings. The colour was not a way of representing the reality but something to translate the visual sensations of [...]

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