Art News

“Gabriële” considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others.

Like many feminist artists, she took the body as her subject. But while others were exploring their own bodies, she painted the male anatomy.

His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s. In the ’90s, Nick Nolte played a character inspired by him in a Martin Scorsese film.