Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Paul Rieth’s Adam and Eve, with Footnotes – #131
Estimated for 5,000 – 20,000 EUR in March 2023 In a desolate landscape of rocks and brown and red cliffs, with no way to escape, a naked Adam and Eve, marked by the original sin, lament their fate. Rieth has here reduced the narrative to its essentials, without introducing any unnecessary picturesque element, focusing on the guilt…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Helisena Girl’s Maeia with child, with Footnotes – #57
Sold for €1,100 EUR in Mar 2023 Maria with child or Madonna and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Florence Henri’s Line Viala, #245
Sold for USD 5,040 in Apr 2022 Line Viala, real name Hélène Stiévenard , is a French singer and actress born on 30 August 1910 in Choisy-le-Roi( Seine ) and died on 26 March 1998 in Saint-Cloud ( Hauts-de-Seine ). Line Viala was a famous French actress and accordionist in the guinguette style of the 1930s. She…
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05 Paintings – Marine Art, CARLOS NADAL by the Sea, with Footnotes, #327
Nadal studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Senior Fine Art Academy of St George, both in Barcelona… Please follow link for full post
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Edmund Teske’s Nudes, with footnotes # 103
Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and musice… Please follow link for full post
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03 Religious Icons, Workshop of Andrea di Nerio’s Nativity; Dormition of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin, with footnotes #51
Andrea di Nerio was the leading painter in Arezzo in the middle decades of the 14th Century. As an artistic personality, he only became clearly defined with the discovery of a signature on a painting of the Annunciation in the Museo Diocesano, Arezzo in the mid-20th Century; before that, he was known by documentary evidence…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman’s Female Nude on the Ladder, #243
Sold for for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022 The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog’s nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It’s hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure.…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julian Wasser’s Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, #242
After exchanging her blouse and skirt for a smock, Babitz sat at the chessboard in the center of the room. She waited for Duchamp to appear, Wasser to set up… Please follow link for full post
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05 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; Edouard Verschaffelt’s Women in an interior in Algeria, with footnotes, #102
A student at the academies of Ghent and Antwerp, Verschaffelt left Flanders with his wife in 1919 to forget the darkness of the war years. His wife died shortly after they settled in… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works of the Canals of Venice, by Edmund Dulac after Alfred de Musset poem, with footnotes. #132
This watercolour is the first of a series of four drawings used to illustrate the poem Venise by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857). Dulac’s illustrations were deemed to be the ideal accompaniment to de Musset’s poem… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Northern Netherlands’ Entombment of Christ, with Footnotes – #130
Sold for € 10.200 in March 2023 The burial of Jesus refers to the burial of the body of Jesus after crucifixion, before the eve of the sabbath described in the New Testament. According to the canonical gospel accounts, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea. In…
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Terence Patrick O’Neill’s Audrey Hepburn in Pool, with Footnotes. #152
Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Two for the Road’, 1966, where Joanna and her architect husband, Mark Wallace have been married for a decade, and their relationship’s become very rocky… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203
The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, William Wyld’s Fishing boats in an Italian coastal landscape, with Footnotes, #328
Estimated for £1,500 – £2,000 in July 2022 William Wyld (1806-1889) was an English landscape and topographical painter in oils and watercolour. Wyld was born into a rich merchant family in 1806 in London. On the death of his father when Wyld was aged 20, he was made secretary to the British Consulate in Calais, where he got…
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02 Paintings – Marine Art, Rikki Kasso’s Breaking Waves, with Footnotes, #326
Artist Rikki Kasso is currently based in Byron Bay, Australia. The self-taught art director, photographer and multi-disciplinary visual artist left his native New York City for Shibuya… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sidney Maure’s Marilyn Monroe (Died on this day in 1962), with Footnotes. #144
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution. In 1999, the American…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists,Abdelbassit Ben Dahman’s Le Faucon/ the Falcon, with Footnotes #70
Abdelbassit Ben Dahman is a Moroccan visual artist born in 1949 in Tangier and died in 2018. Figurative art and realism define his style of painting… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Le Pho’s Idylle (Idyll), with Footnotes #101
Sold for HKD 2,000,000 in Nov 2017 Idylle is the term used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing. Examples of the…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Frank Henry Mason’s Unloading barges in Bristol harbour, With Footnotes, #321
Sold for £750 in Nov, 2018 Bristol Harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28 hectares). It is the former natural tidal river Avon through the city but was made into its current form in 1809 when the tide was prevented from going out permanently. A tidal by-pass was dug for 2 miles through the fields of…
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09 Works, Today, July 20th, is Prophet Elias’s day, his story in art #201 With Footnotes
Elijah was a prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab… Please follow link for full post
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