Series - Horses in Art

Walasse Ting, "Blue Horse and Bouquet", circa 1990.

As a teenager, a huge canvas by him was always in my room, it was an extraordinary source of good humor.

Little known, this canvas by Edvard Munch, "Man with Horse", from 1932,

Letter photomontage with the horse from "Parade" by Picasso, sent by Jean Cocteau to Francis Picabia, in 1919.

Costumes created by Picasso for the ballet "Parade" in 1917.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "L’Écuyère", 1899.

Matisse, "Le cheval, l'écuyère et le clown"

Matisse, "The Horse, the Equestrian and the Clown" from Jazz", a sublime bibliophile work published in 1947 by the Greek Tériade.

Picasso "Study for Guernica", 1937.

Théodore Géricault "La Retraite de Russie"

Study by Théodore Géricault "The Retreat from Russia", 1818.

From 1945 and the opening of the Maeght Gallery, until his death, Aimé Maeght published DLM.

Excerpt from "The Maeght Saga":

Marc Chagall is the closest neighbor to the property and Mamy wants us to say a little hello to the mischievous artist every day. Alone or with my sisters, on foot, by bike, or on horseback – with Flo, we traverse the surrounding hills perched on the horses of another neighbor, I always stop on the way at his house and that of his wife, Valentine Brodsky, who is called Vava. She is much younger than him, only ten years older than Ida, the daughter of Chagall and Bella, but she rules with an iron fist. I fear her. Chagall is crazy about her, just as he once was about Bella. Grandpa loves to imitate Chagall with his sublime Russian accent. All the artist's cunning is perceptible in one of the films Pierre Dumayet dedicated to my grandparents, where he asks him why he only signs his paintings when they leave his studio. "Because I think the painting is never finished, I'm not happy, I'm a type who is never happy, except with my wife I'm happy." Grandpa must not have been far from thinking the same thing, never satisfied, except with his wife.

Joan Miró, "Le Cheval, la pipe et la fleur rouge"

Joan Miró, "The Horse, the Pipe, and the Red Flower", 1920.

This wonderful painting by Miró evokes for me the magic of Christmas, with its colors, accumulation, the horse toy...

Unbelievable, this painting by Joan Miró is over 100 years old!

Joan Miró, "Circus Horse", 1927.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, sublime lithograph from 1895. Only 100 copies, a rarity sought after by "Napoleonic" collectors and art lovers.

Magnificent, the tricolored horses!

Bonaparte franchissant le Grand-Saint-Bernard" andy warhol

1984 Andy Warhol, after Jacques-Louis David's "Bonaparte Crossing the Great Saint Bernard".

Francis Picabia, "Horses", 1907.

Dada! Dadaist!

The beauty of a horse by Aki Kuroda, 1985.

In 1905, Picasso focused on circus characters, harlequins, acrobats, saltimbanques, or as here, an "Equestrienne on horseback".

It's amazing, it could be a fresco from Pompeii and suddenly the modernity of the character jumps out at us.

Marc Chagall, "The Equestrian with the Red Horse", 1957.

"The Musical Album" by Wassily Kandinsky, includes thirty-eight prose poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907.

In the woodcuts, Kandinsky increasingly created undecipherable images (although the horse and rider are present). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky stated that his choice of technique stemmed from an "inner necessity" of expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems merely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought an interaction between text and image.

This wonderful "Little Horse" by Alexander Calder. It is articulated and can rear or bow, like a circus horse. It was given to the Centre Pompidou by my family.

This work will cause an outcry: it is Maurizio Cattelan's "Kaputt", a series of 5 taxidermied horses suspended from a wall, from behind, their legs dangling, and their heads embedded in the wall. Cattelan, the author of the banana taped to the wall.

Is this a shocking image to denounce an escape and a refusal of the real world?

Cattelan refers to Malaparte's novel, "Kaputt", and particularly to the episode concerning horses trapped in the ice of Lake Ladoga in Russia.

"When I have an idea, it's the image of the idea that comes to me, not the meaning." Maurizio Cattelan

Cattelan's horses will provoke a strong reaction and lead to a petition. Personally, I don't like animals to be humiliated or ridiculed, even dead ones.

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, "Le Grand Cheval"

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, "The Great Horse", Plaster, 1914.

Joaquín Sorolla on El Cabanyal beach, Valencia, in 1909 painting "The Horse's Bath", now exhibited at the Prado Museum.

I never tire of it.

Max Ernst with rocking horse, Paris, 1938.

Humor, absolute chic, the most demanding art. Enough to satisfy a lifetime. Dada-ist!

Xavier Veilhan's Carriage, which was exhibited in the Cour d'honneur of the Palace of Versailles in 2009. Like a folded metal origami, the carriage drawn by six horses is an echo of the past, revisited by 3D technology.

A dynamic evocation of Louis XIV's Grand Siècle, the carriage embodies speed and power, but, here frozen in its course, it evokes the flight to Varennes of Louis XVI and his family. It is a driverless carriage, a ghost ship...

FIAC - Tagada Tagada, the marshal must be laughing at what he sees perched on his horse, at the entrance of FIAC.

Ultimately, this is the most beautiful installation and composition seen at FIAC.

The bronze of Marshal Joffre, victor of the first Battle of the Marne in 1914, was made in 1939 by Maxime Real Del Sarte, born in 1888 in Paris and died in 1954, founder of the "Camelots du roi," a group of students opposed to the "Pantheonization" of Zola. Born into a family very open to the art world, which included Italian painter Andrea del Sarto, Maxime Real del Sarte entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1908.

I love this photo of Marino Marini, in 1952, perched on one of his sculptures in his Milan studio, a superb photographer Herbert List.

"Portrait of Henri IV, King of France, on horseback in front of Paris". It is unknown who painted this painting in 1595.
Behind the king, on the right, you can see the Tour du Bois (which was part of Charles V's enclosure) and the Louvre, on the left, the Tuileries Palace and Garden. In the background, Montmartre hill.