#1908 paintings

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The Yellow Flower (1908) by Robert Lewis Reid

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"The angel sitting on the coffin" (1908/1911)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

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The Kiss Gustav Klimt, c. 1907-1908 Oil and gold leaf on canvas

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The Cobweb Dance (Charles Courtney Curran, 1908)

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John William Waterhouse RA (Italian-born English, 1849-1917) The soul of the rose, 1908

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Inferno (1908) by Franz von Stuck

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Village Gossips, Brittany by Jane Peterson, c.1908

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The Kiss (1908-1909) 🎨 Gustav Klimt 🏛️ Belvedere 📍 Vienna, Austria

“The Kiss”, probably the most popular work by Gustav Klimt, was first exhibited in 1908 at the Kunstschau art exhibition on the site of today’s Konzerthaus. The Ministry bought it from there for the sum of 25,000 Kronen and thus secured for the state one of the icons of Viennese Jugendstil and indeed of European modern art. It undoubtedly represents the culmination of the phase known as the “Golden Epoch”. In this decade, the artist created a puzzling, ornamental encoded programme that revolved around the mystery of existence, love and fulfilment through art. Klimt gained initial inspiration for this in 1903 on a journey to Ravenna to see the Byzantine mosaics. In addition, the painting contains a myriad of motifs from various cultural epochs, above all from Ancient Egyptian mythology. Most recent research has, however, revealed that it is not enough to read the ornaments in the picture just as symbols rooted in tradition aiming to convey a timelessly valid message. They reveal more, such as references to Klimt’s love for Emilie Flöge and the artist’s exploration of the sculptor Auguste Rodin’s art.

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Absinthe Drinkers (1908) by Jean Béraud

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𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔲𝔰𝔞, յՑգշ // յգօՑ, 𝔟𝔶 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔷 𝔳𝔬𝔫 𝔖𝔱𝔲𝔠𝔨

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La Marchesa Luisa Casati con un levriero (1908) by Giovanni Boldini

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Oskar Kokoschka - The Dreaming Boys (1908)

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"L'Atelier Humbert", painting by Mademoiselle Rondenay

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1908 to Paris

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• At the Piano.

Artist: Childe Hassam (North American, 1859-1935)

Date: 1902; 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Pastoral of the South-west

N.C. Wyeth

oil on canvas, 1908