M.S. Rau Fine Art

M.S. Rau Fine Art M.S. Rau offers original works by history's most renowned artists including Monet, Picasso, Renoir and others.

Jean-Léon Gérôme painted what he could never witness firsthand.Le Marabout: In the Harem Bath (c. 1889) draws on Gérôme'...
06/05/2026

Jean-Léon Gérôme painted what he could never witness firsthand.

Le Marabout: In the Harem Bath (c. 1889) draws on Gérôme's 1879 visit to the Turkish baths of Bursa, where he conducted meticulous studies of light, architecture and atmosphere. The result is an Orientalist masterwork of luminous flesh tones and quiet theatrical tension — anchored by the marabou stork standing sentinel over the scene. As the foremost French Academic painter and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Gérôme shaped the careers of over 2,000 students, including Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins.

Few works of this scale and subject remain in private hands.

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06/04/2026

Light doesn’t just illuminate this painting — it is the painting.

In Evening Sun, Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé captures a sunlit rock face rising from still water, its pale surface ablaze with the last rays of day. Painted in 1921 and acquired directly from the artist in Arcachon-Gironde in 1929, this oil on panel reflects the atmospheric mastery that earned Choultsé recognition from the court of Tsar Nicholas II to the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris. Rich impasto, commanding composition and a rare provenance chain make this one of the more exceptional Russian landscape works to come to market.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2321.

06/02/2026

Few artists captured the energy of the sea like Raoul Dufy. Painted circa 1929, Départ des régates à Cowes translates the chaos and exhilaration of an English regatta into pure visual rhythm — sailboats surge across choppy water, flags snap in the wind and Dufy’s signature fluid line makes the whole canvas feel alive with motion.

Cowes held a special significance for Dufy. During his travels to England between 1925 and 1935, he rediscovered the maritime spirit of his Norman childhood. Born in Le Havre, the sea was never far from his imagination — and works like this one show why. The canvas is included in Maurice Laffaille’s catalogue raisonné and carries distinguished provenance, including the collection of Ali Khan.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-1823.

Beneath the silver, a painting waits.This circa 1899 Russian icon of Christ Pantocrator layers two extraordinary objects...
06/01/2026

Beneath the silver, a painting waits.

This circa 1899 Russian icon of Christ Pantocrator layers two extraordinary objects into one: an oil painting of the "Ruler of All" and an elaborate gilt and enameled silver oklad that covers nearly the entire composition. Only the face and hands of Christ remain visible — a deliberate theological choice, focusing the viewer's devotion on the most sacred passages of the image. The oklad bears the kokoshnik hallmark, indicating .875 silver and placing its production at the close of the Imperial era. Church Slavonic inscriptions drawn from the Gospel of John complete the work. What does it mean to honor a sacred image by concealing it?

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Painted in 1892 — the most pivotal year of Morisot's life. One month before her first solo exhibition opened at Paris's ...
05/29/2026

Painted in 1892 — the most pivotal year of Morisot's life. One month before her first solo exhibition opened at Paris's Boussod, Valadon et Cie, her husband Eugène Manet died. Jeune fille au chien was born from that grief.

Set in Morisot's own garden at 40 Rue de Villejust, the canvas depicts Jeanne Fourmanoir — the celebrated model who also sat for Renoir — rendered in the hazy, luminous palette that defines Morisot's late style. The work passed through the 1896 Durand-Ruel retrospective organized by Degas, Monet, Renoir and Mallarmé in her honor, and later through distinguished American collections before entering ours.

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05/28/2026

Henry Moret painted the Breton coast like no one else — and this 1897 canvas proves it.

La baie de Lampaul, île d’Ouessant captures the rugged beauty of one of France’s most remote islands through the bold, chromatic lens of Post-Impressionism. A key figure in the Pont-Aven circle alongside Paul Gauguin, Moret transformed Brittany’s shifting seas and sunlit rock formations into works of extraordinary color and conviction. His paintings now reside in the Musée d’Orsay, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

What landscape stops you in your tracks?

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05/26/2026

Jean-François Raffaëlli painted Paris not as an ideal — but as a living, breathing city.

In Trinité des Monts, Paris, the Place de la Trinité pulses with Belle Époque life: horse-drawn carriages, fashionable pedestrians and the grand Église de la Sainte-Trinité rising above the boulevard. Raffaëlli — who exhibited alongside the Impressionists at the invitation of Edgar Degas — forged a style that bridged Realism, Naturalism and Impressionism, earning him the Légion d’Honneur in 1889.

His works are held by the Musée d’Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.

Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-1918.

Bold geometry. Saturated color. A side of Frank Sinatra few ever saw.Known worldwide for his unmistakable voice and larg...
05/25/2026

Bold geometry. Saturated color. A side of Frank Sinatra few ever saw.

Known worldwide for his unmistakable voice and larger-than-life presence, Sinatra also explored painting as a deeply personal creative outlet. Works like Purple Abstract, Blue Abstract and Abstract with Squares reveal his fascination with modern abstraction through rhythmic composition and vivid color.

Which work speaks to you most?

Discover these works on our website. Item No. 32-2429, 32-2431 & 32-2430.

Gustave Caillebotte produced only around 450 paintings in his lifetime — and this is one of them.Dated 1881, Paysage prè...
05/22/2026

Gustave Caillebotte produced only around 450 paintings in his lifetime — and this is one of them.

Dated 1881, Paysage près de Trouville captures a sun-drenched Normandy villa through a canopy of lush trees, painted during the artist's summers at the fashionable coastal resort town. Caillebotte's layered brushwork and unconventional framing — influenced by Japanese prints — give the composition a remarkably modern energy. Beyond his own extraordinary talent, Caillebotte shaped the course of art history as one of the earliest collectors of his fellow Impressionists. His bequest of nearly 70 masterworks to the French state later became the foundation of the Musée d'Orsay's collection.

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05/21/2026

Venice, as seen through the eyes of Canaletto’s own pupil.

William James trained under the great Venetian master during Canaletto’s years in England — and this luminous oil on canvas reveals how deeply that influence took hold. Depicting the Grand Canal from Campo San Vio toward the Dogana, James draws from a comparable Canaletto composition now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, yet transforms it with a strikingly vivid palette of crimson and deep orange. It is a scene made for the age of the Grand Tour, when British collectors sought painted records of Italy’s splendors.

What detail draws your eye first?
Discover this piece on our website. Item No. 32-2297.

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