Sentences with phrase «size oil sketches»

This was the first exhibition to display all of Constable's 6 - foot paintings and the first to reunite them with the corresponding full - size oil sketches.

Overview: 55 paintings and drawings by John Constable were shown in this exhibition, which focused on Constable's 6 - foot - wide landscape paintings, including The Hay Wain, View on the Stour near Dedham, and Hadleigh Castle, and the associated full - size oil sketches.

[41] They were carefully prepared using studies and full - size oil sketches, [42] whereas Turner was notorious for finishing his exhibition pieces when they were already hanging for show, freely adjusting them to dominate the surrounding works in the tightly - packed hangs of the day.

Not exact matches

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

But how many blew up what might seem oil sketches to the size of history painting?