they paint the world full of shadows

Edvard Munch - The Bite (1914)

Léon Bakst - Design for the costume of Carabosse in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty (1921)

Sam Szafran - Untitled (1974)

Benjamin Haughton (British, 1865–1924) - Half-Lit Woodland Scene

Hans Heyerdahl (Norwegian, 1857-1927) - Romance, Montmatre

William Verplanck Birney - The Ghost Story (ca. 1897-1899)

Gladys Roldan-de-Moras - Untitled (Traje de Luces), 2022

Olle Olsson-Hagalund - Stenvillan, Sundbyberg (The stone villa), 1939

Gabriele Münter - Lady in an Armchair, writing (Stenography: Swiss Woman in Pyjamas), 1929

Henri Lebasque (French, 1865 - 1937) - La Lecture

Edouard Vuillard - Jeanne Louise Guérin (1916-1917)

“If Aïcha is often naked, she rarely undoes her head kerchief—now cabbage-green, now the color of silver—which suits her so well. Aïcha is too much a girl from Roubaix not to be perfectly civilized. She sits, she dances, she is pleasant. Long before Josephine Baker launched the fashion of banana belts, Aïcha wore, at wild parties in Montparnasse, her diminutive raffia skirt.” – Andre Salmon, Poet, Writer and Art Critic (source)

Paul Fischer (Danish 1860 - 1934) - Interior with a woman reading by the light of a lamp

Willem Roelofs (Dutch 1822–1897) - Water lily pond with rower

Eduard Kaempffer - Girl in a white hat (ca. 1900)

Eren Eyüboğlu (Romanian/Turkish, 1907-1988)

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan - Reading Old Lady (1915)