Barnes - Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

By the same author

FICTION

Metroland
Before She Met Me
Flauberts Parrot
Staring at the Sun
A History of the World in 10 Chapters
Talking it Over
The Porcupine
Cross Channel
England, England
Love, etc
The Lemon Table
Arthur & George
Pulse
The Sense of an Ending

NON-FICTION

Letters from London 19901995
Something to Declare
The Pedant in The Kitchen
Nothing to be Frightened of
Through the Window
Levels of Life

TRANSLATION

In The Land Of Pain
by Alphonse Daudet

Postcard: Quimperl (Finistre): Le Pont fleuri. (Editions dArt Yvon)

Scene of Cannibalism on the Raft of the Medusa , c. 181819 by Thodore Gricault. Muse du Louvre, D.A.G., Paris, France. Photo RMN-Grand Palais (Muse du Louvre)/Thierry Le Mage

Detail from The Raft of the Medusa , 1818/19, by Thodore Gricault. Muse du Louvre, Paris, France. Photo: Erich Lessing/akg-images

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Detail from Homage to Delacroix , 1864, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: DeA Picture Library/The Art Archive

An Unmade Bed , c. 1827, by Eugne Delacroix. Muse Eugne Delacroix, Paris, France. Photo RMN-Grand Palais (Muse du Louvre)/Michle Bellot

The Mediterranean , 1857, by Gustave Courbet. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from The Meeting , 1854, by Gustave Courbet. Muse Fabre, Montpellier, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from The Artists Studio , 18545, by Gustave Courbet. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from A Studio at Les Batignolles , 1870, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: Collection Dagli Orti/The Art Archive

The Bouquet of Lilacs , 1882, by douard Manet. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany. Photo: Jrg P. Anders. 2015 Photo Scala, Florence/BPK, Bildagentur fr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin

Detail from The Execution of Maximilian , 1868, by douard Manet. Stdtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. Photo: The Art Archive

(left) Detail from The Execution of Maximilian , 18678 by douard Manet. National Gallery, London. Photo: akg-images. (right) Detail from The Execution of Maximilian , 1868, by douard Manet. Stdtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. Photo: The Art Archive

Detail from A Corner of the Table , 1872, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from Homage to Delacroix , 1864, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: DeA Picture Library/The Art Archive

The Dubourg Family , 1878, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from Homage to Czanne , 1900, by Maurice Denis. Muse dOrsay, Paris, France. Photo: Erich Lessing/akg-images

The Card Players , 18935, by Paul Czanne. Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Madame Czanne in a Red Armchair , c. 1877, oil on canvas, 72.4 55.9 cm (28 22 in.) by Paul Czanne. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA/Bequest of Robert Treat Paine, II. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Apotheosis of Degas , 1885, albumen silver print by Edgar Degas and Walter Barnes. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA. Digital image courtesy of the Gettys Open Content Program

Combing the Hair , c. 1896, by Edgar Degas. National Museum of Art Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. Photo: Brre Hstland

Detail from The Dance Lesson, c. 1879, by Edgar Degas. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Madame Camille Redon Reading by Odilon Redon. Private Collection/Christies Images. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Chimera (Fantastic Monster) , 1883, by Odilon Redon. Collection Krller-Mller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

The Cyclops , c. 1914, by Odilon Redon. Collection Krller-Mller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

The Anabaptists: Pierre Bonnard , 19304, by douard Vuillard. Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. Photo: Roger-Viollet/Bridgeman Images

Nude in the Bath , 1925, by Pierre Bonnard. Tate Britain, London, UK. Photo: Tate, London 2015 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015

A Corner of the Table , 1935, by Pierre Bonnard. Muse National dArt Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015

Woman Sweeping , c. 18991900 by douard Vuillard. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA. Photo: Bridgeman Images

The Nape of Misias Neck , 18979, by douard Vuillard. Private Collection

The Chat , 1893, by douard Vuillard. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

The Lie , 1898, by Flix Vallotton. The Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA. Photo: akg-images

Detail from The Five Painters , 1902, by Flix Vallotton. Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland. Photo: akg-images

Money , 1898, by Flix Vallotton. Photo: akg-images

The Pond (Honfleur) , 1909, by Flix Vallotton. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Photo: akg-images

Les usines de Rio Tinto lEstaque , 1910, by Georges Braque. Donation de Genevive et Jean Masurel en 1979. LaM, Lille Mtropole Muse dart moderne, dart contemporain et dart brut. Inv.: 979.4.19. Photo: Muriel Anssens ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015

Georges Braque, artist, and his wife Augustine, Paris, 27th January, 1959. Photograph by Richard Avedon. The Richard Avedon Foundation

Les Affinits Electives , 1933, by Ren Magritte. Private Collection. Photo: Scala, Florence ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015

La Clairvoyance , 1936, by Ren Magritte. Private Collection. Photo: Scala, Florence ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2015

Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park North, N.Y.C. - Teddy Bear , 1965, crayon and watercolour, 23 18 in. (60.6 47.9 cm) by Claes Oldenburg. Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Gift of the American Contemporary Art Foundation, Leonard Lauder, President. 1965 Claes Oldenburg

Giant Soft Fan , 19667, vinyl filled with polyurethane foam, canvas, wood, metal, plastic fan, approximately: 120 58 61 in. (305 149 157.1 cm); cord and plug, length: 290 in. (736.6 cm), by Claes Oldenburg. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, 1967. Photo: 2014, Digital Image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala Florence. 19667 Claes Oldenburg

Dead Dad , 19967, mixed media, 20 38 102 cm/7 15 40 in., by Ron Mueck. Stefan T. Edlis Collection. Image courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London Ron Mueck, 2015

Vnus ataxique , 1895, by Paul Richer. Muse de lAssistance Publique-Hpitaux de Paris, France F. Marin/AP-HP

The Head of an Englishman , 1840?, anonymous. Musum National dHistoire Naturelle, Paris, France MNHN Daniel Ponsard

The Hand of a Giant from Barnums Circus , c. 1889, anonymous. Muse Fragonard, cole national vtrinaire dAlfort, Maisons-Alfort, France

Artist in his Studio, c. 1628, oil on panel, 24.8 31.7 cm (9 12 in.) by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA/Zoe Oliver Sherman Collection/Given in memory of Lillie Oliver Poor. Photo: Bridgeman Images

Detail from Hotel Bedroom , 1954, by Lucian Freud. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Canada The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Bridgeman Images (In full below)

Detail from The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer , 20045, by Lucian Freud. Private Collection/ The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Bridgeman Images (In full below)