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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Meynier’s Allegory of war, with footnotes
Sold for €20,625 EUR in June 2022 This door top comes from Madame Mère’s Palazzo Rinuccini in Rome. Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter… Read more
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Andrea Vaccaro’s Sant ‘Agata, With Footnotes – 123
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251.… Read more
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at… Read more
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In… Read more
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11 Works, November 22st. is Consuelo Fould’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239
Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a… Read more
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16 Works, October 15th. is Juan Bautista Maíno’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #223
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and… Read more
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12 Works, September 20th. is Julius Exter’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #207
Musa is such a passionate dancer that when she is not praying she is dancing, she is even dancing prayers. When she is dancing a prayer to the Holy Virgin,… Read more
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11 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #28
Pierre Bonnard , French, 1867 – 1947 The Port Of Cannes, Le Port de Cannes, c. 1926 – 1927 Oil, canvas Private Collection Cannes is a city located on the… Read more
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12 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Century, by the artists of the time, with foot notes. #5
Richard Price, (British, born 1962) April Day in Venice Oil on canvas 51 x 61cm (20 1/16 x 24in). Private Collection The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known… Read more
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12 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 30
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY’s Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217
Kiki, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture… Read more
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04 Works, October 2h. is Sigrid Hjertén’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #259
Born to a middle-class family in Sundsvall, Sigrid Hjertén lost her mother at a very young age. She studied to be a drawing teacher at the Konstfack University College of… Read more
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06 Paintings, Olympian deities, William Etty’s Venus, with footnotes # 47
Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son,… Read more
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Arthur Rackham’s Andromeda, with footnotes # 46
Sold for £88,500 in September 2022 Rackham has applied his unique imagery and style to the myth of Andromeda. The princess has been chained to a rock as a sacrifice to… Read more
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Maurice Brianchon’d c. NU AUX BAS ROUGES, with footnotes #218
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in December 2018 Maurice Brianchon, (1899-1979) French, is known as one of the Painters of Poetic Reality. Brianchon attended É’cole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and moved to Spain… Read more
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Symbiosis, with footnotes #215
Estimated for US$4,000 – US$6,000 in May 2020 Symbiosis, interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18,… Read more
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04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Orval Hixon’s Ernestine Meyers, with Footnotes #231
The daughter of MLB player Albert “Cod” Myers, Ernestine Myers (1900–91) was born in Terre Haute. She performed acrobatic toe dances, ballet and Creole folk styles in both Keith and… Read more
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, LUCIEN LÉVY-DHURMER’s La bourrasque, with Footnotes #230
Sold for GBP 126,000 in Jul 2022 La bourrasque, which translates as ‘The squall’, formed part of a strikingly ethereal series of portraits based upon the theme of the four seasons.… Read more
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