New Year’s Eve with Artists
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Alphonse Mucha | Winter and Christmas Images | Alberti’s Window 1896-1897
A GOOD PARTY NEEDS…
1. MUSIC
Paul Gauguin playing Mucha’s harmonium in his studio ca. 1893-1894
Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
2. DANCE
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at his studio painting ‘At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance’ 1890
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 – 1901) | At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance 1890
oil on canvas 116×150 cm – Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
3. PRETTY DRESS
Gustav Klimt as an attendand of an party in the Primavesi-house ca. 1912
with a house-coat designed by Carl Otto Czeschka, Name of the pattern Waldidyll
Gusatv Klimt | L’Arbre de Vie, Stoclet Frieze [The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze] 1909
oil on canvas 195 cm × 102 cm – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna [Wien], Austria
4. DELICIOUS FOOD
Jackson Pollock cooks with his wife, Lee Krasner, and his mother, Stella Pollock 1950
in the kitchen of his home in Springs, in East Hampton, N.Y.
Jackson Pollock | Untitled ca. 1948–1949
dripped ink and enamel on paper 56.8 x 76.2 cm
Gift of Lee Krasner Pollock, 1982 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
5. GOOD COMPANY
André Derain, Balthus & Alberto Giacometti at Dinner Party in Paris 1954
photo by Alexander Liberman
Sculptures of Alberto Giacometti at Leopold Museum in Wien 2014-2015
6. RIGHT TIME
Salvador Dalí and Janet Daly on New Year’s Eve 1979
Photo by Roxanne Lowit
Salvador Dalí | The Persistence of Memory 1931
oil on canvas 24.1 x 33 cm – The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Truman Capote & Paloma Picasso 1978
on New Year’s Party at Studio 54
Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley Jr., Liza Minnelli & Andy Warhol 1979
New Year’s Eve party at Studio 54 – Photo by Robin Platzer
Andy Warhol celebrates his last New Years Eve at Cafe Roma restaurant in New York City December 31, 1986
(Warhol died less than two months later on February 22, 1987.)