Anatomy of an artwork

Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream): erotic and primal

This article is more than 8 years oldThe painter’s mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, was is his muse in this libidinous portrait of sexual desire and expressionSkye Sherwin

Skye Sherwin

9 march 2018

The painter’s mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, was is his muse in this libidinous portrait of sexual desire and expression

David Hockney’s Two Boys Aged 23 or 24 / Sensuality and history

 

David Hockney’s Two Boys Aged 23 or 24. Photograph: © David Hockney

Anatomy of an artwork

David Hockney’s Two Boys Aged 23 or 24: sensuality and history

This article is more than 6 years old

The cultural icon captures close intimacy between his friends to illustrate CP Cavafy’s poem

Skye Sherwin
Friday 12 July 2019

Art

‘Every single work is a masterpiece’: the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings

A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life

Skye Sherwin

Thursday 28 May 2024

The women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where they’re chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.