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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A riverside balcony at the Maison Fournaise, a table of wine and fruit, and a circle of Renoir's friends: this guide reads the painting's subject, its tightly composed blend of portraiture, still life and landscape, and the questions its identified cast still raises.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's The Siesta shows two peasants asleep on hay at midday. It is a copy after Jean-François Millet, part of van Gogh's series of copies after that earlier French painter, and it belongs to the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
A bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's statue of Honoré de Balzac stands on the Neumarkt in Cologne, before the Lempertz auction house. This docent-led visit explains what the work represents, how its material status as a cast shapes our understanding, and why a monument to a French novelist occupies a public square in Germany.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery guide to Vincent van Gogh's The Night Café, painted in Arles in 1888: a café interior at night, with a green billiard table at its centre, a landlord standing behind it, and drinkers slumped at the tables. The lamps burn as rings of yellow and orange, and the tilted floor and red walls give the room its unsettling glare.
Artist: Paul Gauguin
A Tahitian girl lies face down on a bed while a dark hooded figure watches from behind. Gauguin painted this scene in Tahiti in 1892, giving it the Tahitian title Manao tupapau, which is usually translated as The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch.
Artist: Ampaire Edger
A digital photograph by Ampaire Edger records young men breaking stone at a rocky summit in central Uganda, using a pneumatic drill to supply Kampala's construction industry.
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