M.S. Rau Fine Art

M.S. Rau Fine Art M.S. Rau offers original works by history's most renowned artists including Monet, Picasso, Renoir and others.

Le Sidaner worked from memory rather than direct observation.That method gave "La table sur la terrasse au clair de lune...
08/28/2026

Le Sidaner worked from memory rather than direct observation.

That method gave "La table sur la terrasse au clair de lune, Villefranche-sur-Mer" its dreamlike hold. Completed in 1927, the work sets a table on a terrace above a quiet vista, chairs pulled back in silent invitation. A leading figure of Intimism, Le Sidaner rendered the essence of a place rather than a fleeting moment before it.

Exhibited at Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, in November 1927.

Which draws you in first, the moonlight or the empty chairs?

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08/27/2026

Rotterdam’s harbor rendered in dazzling turquoise and violet by one of Neo-Impressionism’s key figures. Maximilien Luce painted this luminous port scene in 1907, the same year Paul Signac unveiled his own monumental Rotterdam harbor view at the Salon des Indépendants, sparking renewed interest in the subject among the avant-garde. Luce spent his career finding beauty in modern industry, and here, smoke rising from a steamship’s hull becomes a study in lavender and gray light. His work hangs today in the Musée d’Orsay and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What draws you into this harbor: the color or the history?

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2891.

Meet a contemporary artist whose path from a 1990s Southern California graffiti writer to high-fashion designer led him...
08/25/2026

Meet a contemporary artist whose path from a 1990s Southern California graffiti writer to high-fashion designer led him through federal incarceration and into over a decade of sobriety. His raw, layered work fuses street-art kinetics with classical fine art in a style he calls “Ryzantine.” Join M.S. Rau Aspen for a private reception with artist, Louis Carreon and Georgetown University art historian Dr. Ori Soltes on Thursday August 27 from 5:00-7:00, featuring his Ballerina series, American Boots and a limited selection of paintings new to the market.

What does redemption look like through art?

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A single phrase could mean the difference between a submarine's survival and its stranding — the "parent ship."During Wo...
08/24/2026

A single phrase could mean the difference between a submarine's survival and its stranding — the "parent ship."

During World War II, submarines could not carry the fuel, food or spare parts needed for extended patrols. Depot ships, known as parent ships, met this need, serving as floating bases where crews rested, resupplied and repaired their vessels between missions. Montague Dawson, one of the twentieth century's foremost marine painters, captured this exchange in Submarine with Supply Ships, a rare grisaille composition painted circa 1940 for reproduction in the wartime illustrated press. The work appeared in The Sphere on November 16, 1940, under the title A Submarine Comes Home.

What strikes you more, the strategy behind these floating bases or the onboard ice cream machines?

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In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse painted just fifteen canvases in the fishing village of Collioure — and set modern ...
08/21/2026

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse painted just fifteen canvases in the fishing village of Collioure — and set modern art on a new course.

Un beau matin d'été dates to that pivotal season on the French Riviera, where Matisse and André Derain pushed color and brushwork to daring new heights. Months later, critic Louis Vauxcelles saw the results at the Salon d'Automne and called the works "les fauves," or wild beasts. Matisse and his circle took up the name as a badge of honor.

Nearly all fifteen Collioure canvases now reside in institutions including MoMA, the Met and SFMOMA.

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08/20/2026

Louis Ritman built his career among fellow American expatriates in Giverny, working in the shadow of Claude Monet himself. Summer Day captures two figures on a sunlit porch overlooking a garden, rendered in the dappled light and layered impasto that defined his Giverny years. Ritman’s work now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and LACMA. This oil on canvas dates to circa 1920s.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2638.

08/18/2026

The painting this drawing prepared no longer exists.

Gustav Klimt executed Standing Female N**e circa 1916-17, during the final years when his golden phase had given way to a freer, more daring late style. The sheet is directly linked to Freundinnen II, a masterwork destroyed in the 1945 fire at Schloss Immendorf. Drawings like this one are among the only surviving works Klimt made by hand toward that lost painting.
Note the fluid linework: her elongated form, lifted arm and direct gaze carry both sensuality and authority. Stamped by the artist’s estate.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2728.

Every reconstruction of an ancient sculpture is also an argument.The Parthenon's east pediment showed the birth of Athen...
08/17/2026

Every reconstruction of an ancient sculpture is also an argument.

The Parthenon's east pediment showed the birth of Athena. Its central figures were most likely removed when the temple became a Christian church, and the goddesses flanking them lost their heads and limbs over the centuries that followed. French sculptor Eugène-Louis Lequesne supplied the missing anatomy himself, presenting the reclining pair as Clotho and Atropos, two of the three Fates. Other scholars read the same figures as Dione and Aphrodite. Ferdinand Barbedienne's Paris foundry cast this monumental version, signed "Lequesne" and marked "F. Barbedienne Fondeur."

Fragment or reconstruction: which tells you more?

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Le Sidaner painted from memory, not from observation.That is why this 1927 terrace at Villefranche-sur-Mer feels less ob...
08/14/2026

Le Sidaner painted from memory, not from observation.

That is why this 1927 terrace at Villefranche-sur-Mer feels less observed than remembered. The table is set, the chairs pulled back, the view beyond dissolving into blue-green dusk. His biographer called this quality "the hour of Le Sidaner," and it made him a leading figure of Intimism. The work was exhibited at Galeries Georges Petit in Paris in November 1927.

His paintings reside in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate and the Phillips Collection.

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