Sentences with word «vache»

Created for his first solo exhibition in Paris in twenty years, the seventeen oil paintings and twenty gouaches from his sarcastic vache period, including the provocative The Stop, were all completed within about five weeks.

Tan vache leather exterior trimmed with silver buckle hardware.

The catalogue's entry for this lot also includes a small color reproduction of another Gauguin work of the same year, «Marine avec vache au dessus, du gouffre,» in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris that is a highly abstract work of great vigor.

The awkward figuration and ugly color harmonies in the canvases of Albert Oehlen and Werner Büttner, for example, are polemical sorties against good taste and look back to late de Chirico, Picabia's nudes from the late 1940s, and Magritte's période vache, all of which were similarly directed against academic surrealism.

The spirit of Magritte hovers over these paintings — his vache paintings from the late 1940s, the ones that nobody wanted.

This vache period (French for «cow,» vache can also mean something stupid or ugly) was long dismissed as a brief and uninteresting sideline in Magritte's career.

DS: There was a period of Magritte that really fascinated me, which I think was a clear inspiration - the «vache» paintings.