Alberto Giacometti was in Geneva during the Second World War. In 1945 he returned to Paris. His old studio was still intact and he could have simply continued working.

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Alberto Giacometti, The Glade, 1950

Secluded, Giorgio Morandi lived and worked in Bologna. He specialized in still lifes on small format canvases.

Giorgio Morandi, Still Lifes and Landscape, 1961

The Alsace artist, Hans Arp, had already played a central role as artist and poet in the Dadaist movements in Zürich and Paris. Humour and irony also characterised his later work, especially the reliefs.

Hans Arp, Skeleton, 1928

In 1926 Alexander Calder left America and went to Paris where the most important new artists of the time were working. His encounter with the Dutchman Piet Mondrian was groundbreaking.

Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1934-1939

The Italian Giorgio de Chirico painted his mysterious pictures in Paris before the First World War. He called his art “Pittura metafisica,” a style that had great influence on European painting.

Giorgio de Chirico, Self-Portrait, 1924

The presence of Cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque was exceptionally strong even before the First World War. The Spaniard Juan Gris discovered the foundations of his work within them, but nevertheless developed his own, quite individual style, which led him to a strictly classical pictorial design.

Juan Gris, Pierrot, 1919

In the years preceding the First World War Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso developed cubism.This was a new type of portrayal of reality.

Georges Braque, Still Life with Guitar, 1919

Fernand Léger was not a painter of finely nuanced colour tones like Robert Delaunay, and he also wasn’t a strict Cubist like Braque and Picasso. Léger was a painter of expressive contrasts: colour, line and form come into direct conflict in his pictures.

Fernand Léger, The Balcony, 1914

Robert Delaunay painted numerous views of Paris. The view of the city through a window is the subject of a series of pictures that he painted in 1912.

Robert Delaunay, The Windows Giving over the Town, 1912

Alongside Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard became the leading painter of intimate interiors at the beginning of the 20th century. They had a mutual interest in the refined use of colour in the rooms.

Pierre Bonnard, The Orange Light Shade, 1908

All his life Edouard Vuillard’s studio was in the apartment that he shared with his mother. Life and painting were closely related and his choice of models was no exception.

Eduard Vuillard, Woman Reading, 1910

In around 1890 some young painters came together under the name of the “Nabis,” among them were, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard. They sought new ideas for the art of painting.

Edouard Vuillard, Grandmother and Child, 1899

Odilon Redon was one of the great loners among French painters. His path was set apart from Realism and Impressionism.

Odilon Redon, Alsace or Reading Monk, ca. 1914

In around 1900 the sculpture underwent profound changes; both material and space were treated in a new way. One of the great innovators in this was Auguste Rodin.

Auguste Rodin, Pierre de Wissant (Nude), ca. 1885-1887

Camille Pissarro was one of the pioneering Impressionist painters.

Camille Pissarro, Mardi Gras, Sunset, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897

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