Rosario Weiss’s La Atención (1841)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Prado has unveiled a self-portrait by Rosario Weiss (1814-43) that was believed misplaced till its latest rediscovery by a drawing held within the Museo del Romanticismo in Madrid. Weiss conceived this allegorical self-portrait on the theme of consideration as a part of a diptych paired together with her self-portrait as silence, which belongs to town of Bordeaux. Described by the Prado as “a prodigy of her time”, she educated throughout her childhood with Francisco de Goya in Madrid and Bordeaux, whereas her mom labored as Goya’s housekeeper. Weiss achieved uncommon success as a feminine artist and was appointed Queen Isabel II’s drawing instructor only one 12 months earlier than her untimely loss of life from cholera, aged 28.
Vincent Van Gogh, Head of a Lady (Gordina de Groot) (1885) Photograph: Peter Cox; courtesy of Het Noordbrabants Museum
Vincent Van Gogh’s Head of a Lady (Gordina de Groot) (1885)
Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
A crowdfunding marketing campaign involving greater than 3,000 folks and a bunch of private and non-private funders helped Het Noordbrabants Museum within the Netherlands increase the €8.6m wanted to purchase Van Gogh’s “Mona Lisa of Brabant”. The artist was born and raised within the southern Dutch province. He made a number of work of an area peasant lady, Gordina de Groot, also referred to as Sien. This portrait prefaces Van Gogh’s early masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885), which depicts the De Groot household round their dinner desk. Bought from the personal assortment of the London-based supplier Daniel Katz, Head of a Lady will function a centrepiece of the museum’s Van Gogh assortment.
Everlyn Nicodemus, The Marriage ceremony 45 (1991) © the artist; courtesy of Nationwide Galleries of Scotland
Everlyn Nicodemus’s The Marriage ceremony 45 (1991)
Nationwide Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
The Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus is presenting her first UK retrospective in Edinburgh, the place she has lived for the previous 15 years. The exhibition on the Nationwide Galleries of Scotland (till 25 Could 2025, then travelling to WIELS, the Brussels up to date artwork centre, in autumn 2025) is supported by the Freelands Award for underrepresented girls artists, which Nicodemus gained in 2022. To mark the opening of the present, the galleries acquired this 1991 portray from a bunch of large-scale symbolic works created throughout Nicodemus’s restoration from a traumatic breakdown. The Marriage ceremony 45 evokes therapeutic and renewal with its upright feminine determine and motifs of inexperienced leaves. The artist and Richard Saltoun Gallery additionally donated a second work, Eva (1981), to the galleries.
