This is the very first Stardust. All reproductions were made on the basis of this design. This is the original work. It has been used extensively by new artists and may therefore contain one or more traces of use, which we have tried to capture in the photos as best as possible.
A Summer Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (1884-86) In his largest and best-known painting, Seurat shows a typical Sunday in a park on the banks of the Seine in a suburb of Paris. He worked on this canvas for two years, making hundreds of sketches beforehand. The result became an icon of late 19th-century…
Bal du Moulin de la Galette (1876) The large painting of the ball is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of Impressionist painting. It shows a typical Sunday afternoon at the Moulin de la Galette, where ordinary Parisians, dressed in their best, enjoy a glass of wine and a modest meal. The Moulin de…
The Birth of Venus (circa 1486) The two-dimensional character of this masterpiece is reminiscent of Greek painting. The subject also refers to Venus Anadyomene (Venus Rising from the Sea), a lost painting by the famous Greek painter Apelles. According to Pliny, Alexander the Great offered his mistress as a model. When Apelles fell in love…
The Birth of Venus (circa 1486) The two-dimensional character of this masterpiece is reminiscent of Greek painting. The subject also refers to Venus Anadyomene (Venus Rising from the Sea), a lost painting by the famous Greek painter Apelles. According to Pliny, Alexander the Great offered his mistress as a model. When Apelles fell in love…
Pond with Water Lilies (1916) From 1883 onwards, Monet lived in the village of Giverny, and worked on series of paintings that depicted the same subject in different light and weather conditions. The subject of one of these series was the pond with water lilies in his own garden, which he eventually painted more than…
Le Jardin de Monet, les Iris (1900) In 1883, Monet rented a country house in Giverny, a small town between Paris and Rouen. He found it so beautiful that he later bought it and lived there for the rest of his life. He worked with great care on his garden, which he called his greatest…
The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze, 1905 The symbolic Tree of Life is part of the decorative design for a mosaic on the frieze of the dining room of the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Height: 28cm Diameter: 12cm
Pollard willows at sunset (Arles, 1888) The pollard willows in the light of the red evening sun reflect Van Gogh’s state of mind in the autumn of 1888. After a long summer of painting in seclusion, he felt exhausted and lonely. Pollard willows were a favourite subject for the artist who grew up in the…
Sunflowers (1888, fourth version) In 1887, Van Gogh painted four still lifes with reclining sunflowers in Paris, where he lived with his brother Theo. The works were very popular with his good friend Paul Gauguin, whose opinion Van Gogh valued greatly. A year later, Van Gogh hoped to impress his Gauguin with four new ‘Sunflowers’….