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“L'Africaine (The African)” by Émile Bernard (French) - Oil on canvas / 1895 - Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany) #WomenInArt #ÉmileBernard #EmileBernard #Bernard #MuseumFolkwang #Folkwang #Essen #arte #artText #BlueskyArt #FrenchArt #PostImpressionism #FrenchArtist #19thCenturyArt #PortraitofaWoman
A young woman sits on a low divan upholstered in wide, horizontal stripes of tans, blues, and reds against a cool green wall. She is turned slightly toward us, with one knee raised beneath the drape of her clothing. Her loose, pale lavender tunic pools in soft folds, painted with visible, gentle brushstrokes that let pinks, whites, and violets mingle like shifting light. Her left arm reaches forward delicately bent. A slim bracelet circles her wrist. Her other arm lifts, elbow angled outward, as her hand rests on the side of her head like an intimate, weary gesture that frames her face. She has dark, curling hair gathered back with a few curls falling across her forehead. Her skin is rendered in warm, golden-brown tones with subtle shadows at the cheekbones and around the eyes. Her gaze is lowered and slightly off to the side. Her expression inward and almost melancholic. Painted in 1895, this portrait comes from French artist Émile Bernard’s years in Cairo, Egypt after travels away from France. The Museum Folkwang highlights his immersion in local life and dress, and that he lived with the Saati family and married their daughter, Lebanese-born Hanenah Saati in 1894. The sitter may actually be Hanenah. In that light, her faraway look complicates the painting’s title: rather than a type (“the African”), we encounter a loved one rendered with tenderness and gravity, seated in a richly patterned interior. The striped divan is a banded horizon of color that holds her body, turning private space into a stage for mood and memory. Bernard described the Cairo quarter as a kind of paradise that promised life “outside western civilization,” and the painting carries that romantic longing while the woman’s pose, weighted head, and downcast eyes also hint at the costs of being looked at, named, and translated by someone else’s dream. Acquired for the Folkwang collection in 1909, this is an artifact of a cross-cultural encounter, yet it asks us to see the woman’s interiority.
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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The smoking Hashish, (1900)
February 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Émile Bernard, 1916. “The Barrel of Hatred”

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January 22, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Memento Mori
#EmileBernard (1868-1941)
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November 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
July 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Vincent van Gogh walking on the path in Asnières, (1887)
July 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Der Salon (1890-92.)
May 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Émile Bernard

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May 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The smoking Hashish (1900)
April 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Today marks the birthday of Émile Bernard (1868–1941) — art rebel, pioneer of Synthetism, and close friend of Van Gogh. His work paved the way for Modernism and continues to inspire. #ÉmileBernard
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April 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Dziś rocznica urodzin Émile’a Bernarda (1868–1941) — buntownika sztuki, pioniera syntetyzmu i bliskiego przyjaciela van Gogha. Jego sztuka przetarła szlaki modernizmowi i nadal inspiruje. #ÉmileBernard
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April 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Autoportrait, (1897)
March 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Les Ténèbres (The Darkness)
#ÉmileBernard (1868–1941)
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February 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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This will be a good read #EmileBernard
February 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Scène de cabaret (Julie la rousse), (1887)
February 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
February 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Portrait of a Woman by Émile Bernard (French) - Oil on canvas / 1919 - Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania, USA) #womeninart #portrait #painting #art #emilebernard #artwork #fineart #philadelphiamuseumofart #artoftheday #womanart #bskyart #bernard #museumart #frenchartist #portraitofawoman
A beautiful dark woman wearing a long white nightgown and a black blanket over her head, shoulders, and lap sits on a simple light green bed with her feet (in black shoes) spread wide. She props her head in her right hand.
December 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Émile Bernard #emilebernard
December 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Vincent Van Gogh in conversation with Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Félix Jobbé-Duval. André Antoine is standing between them.

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December 17, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Collections privées : un voyage des #impressionnistes aux #fauves du 13 Sept. 2018 au 10 Févr. 2019 au #MuseeMarmottan #EmileBernard Madeleine au Bois d'Amour #Gauguin Nature morte à l'Espérance
November 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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#expo #Peinturesdeslointains au #Musee @quaibranly
"Deux cents œuvres inédites révèlent l’évolution, à travers les siècles, du regard porté en Occident sur les peuples, sociétés et territoires plus ou moins lointains." #ÉmileBernard #Matisse #Gauguin

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November 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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#expo #Peinturesdeslointains au #Musee @quaibranly
"Deux cents œuvres inédites révèlent l’évolution, à travers les siècles, du regard porté en Occident sur les peuples, sociétés et territoires plus ou moins lointains." #ÉmileBernard #Matisse #Gauguin

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November 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM