Henry Fuseli, "Paidoleteira" (1821), graphite and black chalk. Hamburg, Private collection of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire (all images courtesy the Courtauld Gallery) For starters, the “Modern Woman” ...

In December 1936, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition featured everything from Arcimboldo’s mannerist profile “Summer” (1563) to Disney ...

Henry Fuseli was “obsessed with sex”, said Mika Ross-Southall in The Daily Telegraph. Wherever he could insert a fetishistic touch into his art, he would: indeed, around a third of the works on show ...

THIS spring the bad boys of British art are making a comeback. Not Damien Hirst and his friends, but the original enfants terribles—Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) and ...

The painting, one of three existing versions of the composition, is based on the crucial scene in Shakespeare’s Macbeth when the play’s protagonist comes across the fate-telling witches. Two other, ...

A RENEWED interest in the work of the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) is being taken at present through an exhibition of some of his paintings and drawings at Ryder Street, London, S.W.I. Fuseli ...

Henry Fuseli was born in the winter of 1741 in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. The son of Swiss painter and writer Johann Caspar Füssli, he studied in his native city but was forced to flee to ...