Artworks in Movies & Filmstars with Artworks

Did You know how many Artworks appear in Movies? I collected a few movies in which paintings and sculptures appear, and some photos of film stars in museums or with artworks. Enjoy 🙂

Manhattan

directed by Woody Allen – 1979

Woody Allen and Diane Kaeton at Whitney Museum in New York

in movie scene “Manhattan” (1979)

On the Wall:

Franz Kline (1910-1962) | Mahoning 1956
Oil and paper on canvas 204.2 × 255.3 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome) | Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1760–1765
Oil on canvas 246.7 x 175.9 cm
Rogers Fund, 1903 – The Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York

Woody Allen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – 1963
with painting “Portrait of a Young Man” by Pompeo Batoni (ca. 1760–1765)
Photo by Ruth Orkin

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Alfred Hitchcock with painting of Salvador Dalí for Spellbound 1945

Vertigo

directed by Alfred Hitchcock -1958

Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster in Film frame from Vertigo

John Ferren’s painting “Portrait of Carlotta” at the Palace of the Legion of Honor

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Marilyn Monroe with Sculpture of Edgar Degas ‘The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer‘ 1956
Photo by Joshua Logan

 

Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) | The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer; model executed

ca. 1880, cast 1922 – Cast by A. A. Hébrard (Paris)
Bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon; wood base 97.8 x 43.8 x 36.5 cm
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Marilyn Monroe at The Metropolitan Museum with Paintings

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Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his Atelier in Cannes 1956

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Barbra Streisand between art pieces, London 1968

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Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet – 1991

Serge Merlin as Raymond Dufayel & Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain in the movie

Serge Merlin as Raymond Dufayel “paints” the Renoirs’s painting

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Le déjeuner des canotiers [Luncheon of the Boating Party] 1880–1881

Oil on canvas 129.9 cm × 172.7 cm – The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

click here to see filmscene of Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain with Renoir’s painting

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Notting Hill 

directed by Roger Michell – 1999

Marc Chagall | La Mariée [The Bride] 1950

gouache, pastel 68×53 cm – Private Collection Japan

Julia Roberts as Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as William Thacker at his home

with reproduction of Chagall’s painting

Anna gives the painting as a gift to William

William and his Friends in Tony’s Restaurant with painting of Chagall 

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La Dolce Vita 1960

Directed by Federico Fellini

Marcello Mastroianni with painting of Giorgio Morandi

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Vanilla Sky

directed by Cameron Crowe – 2001

Penélope Cruz as Sofia Serrano and Tom Cruise as David Aames with painting

‘The Seine at Argenteuil’ by Claude Monet

Claude Monet | The Seine at Argenteuil 1873

Private Collection

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Mona Lisa Smile

directed by Mike Newell – 2003

Julia Roberts as Katherine Ann Watson with Pollock’s painting

Julia Roberts as Katherine Ann Watson with Pollock’s painting

Jackson Pollock | Number 1 (Lavender Mist) 1950

oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas 221 x 299.7 cm – National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Skyfall

directed by Sam Mendes – 2012

Daniel Craig as James Bond and Ben Whishaw as Q in the film Skyfall 

at scene at The London National Gallery

On the Wall:

Thomas Gainsborough | Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett (‘The Morning Walk’) 1785

Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ | An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump 1768 

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George Clooney in a custom suit and scene by Yayoi Kusama 2013

Photo by Emma Summerton

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Dustin Hoffman at MoMA

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dustin Hoffman at MoMA, New York 1968

Photo by Robert Goldberg

Elie Nadelman (American, born Poland, 1882–1946) | Man in Top Hat ca. 1920-1924
Painted bronze 66 x 37.6 x 33.4 cm
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dustin Hoffman at MoMA, New York 1968

Photo by Robert Goldberg

Dustin Hoffman at Sculpturgarden of MoMA, New York 1968

Photo by Robert Goldberg

Dustin Hoffman at Sculpturgarden of MoMA, New York 1968

Photo by Robert Goldberg

 

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And finally a little humor.

Bean

directed by Mel Smith – 1997

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) | Portrait of the Painter’s Mother 1871

oil on canvas 144.3×162.5 cm – Musée d’Orsay Paris

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean destroys painting of Whistler

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean try repair the painting of Whistler

The outcome of repair – Whistler by Mr. Bean

click here to see filmscene of Bean with Whistler’s painting

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Peter O’Toole & Audrey Hepburn with Picassos’s paintings in the scene of How To Seal a Million (1966)