About the artists
Behind every original work of art we sell lies the story of a creative genius of the modern era - read on to find out who they were and where they found their inspiration.
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Francis
BACON
Francis
BACON
'I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.'
Jean-René BAZAINE
Jean-René BAZAINE
'If pictorial expression has changed, it is because modern life has necessitated it.'
Georges
BRAQUE
Alexander CALDER
Marc
CHAGALL
Marc
CHAGALL
'My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.'
Eduardo
CHILLIDA
Eduardo
CHILLIDA
'Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.'
Paul
ELUARD
Claude
GARACHE
Claude
GARACHE
'My women are genderless. They are human beings, they represent all people.'
Alberto GIACOMETTI
Alberto GIACOMETTI
'I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.'
Wilfredo
LAM
Fernand LEGER
Fernand LEGER
'If pictorial expression has changed, it is because modern life has necessitated it.'
Joan
MIRO
Joan
MIRO
'I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.'
Pablo
PALAZUELO
Pablo
PALAZUELO
'I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.'
Paul
REBEYROLLE
Paul
REBEYROLLE
'I passed by the window of an art dealer.. There was a Rouault in the window, and I thought I was going to faint: that was the first real painting I saw.'
Saul
STEINBERG
Saul
STEINBERG
'I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.'
Antoni
TAPIES
Antoni
TAPIES
'The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to be open up to new perspectives.'
Pierre
TAL-COAT
Pierre
TAL-COAT
'I only like what is ready to be deleted, to be taken away -, and I take away what I like.'
RAOUL
UBAC
RAOUL
UBAC
'I would like a state of innocence that would reflect the splendor of the world across my work.'
Can't quite find what you're looking for?
Slade House collects and owns original lithographs, giclees and limited edition prints by all of the modern masters represented here - only some of which are for sale online.
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