Category: Art
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01 Photograph, Albert Watson’s Linda at The 75th season for the Yankees, with Footnotes
The 1977 New York Yankees season was the 75th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 100–62 and won the World Series. The series victory was the 21st title in franchise history and the first under the ownership of George Steinbrenner. New York was managed by Billy Martin and played at…
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01 Painting, Yusuf Arakkal’s Untitled, with footnotes
Estimated for Rs 2,50,000-Rs 3,500,00 ( $3,050-$4,270 ) in June 2023 Yusuf Arakkal (1945 – 2016) was an Indian artist. Arakkal was born in Chavakkad, Kerala. Both his parents died when he was young. Leaving the comforts of his house behind, he left for Bangalore, lonely but with a passion to become a painter. The hardships…
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04 Works, Welcoming Summer 2025 by Paul Gustav Fischer, Slim Aarons Jess Cochrane and Andre Gittelson Gisson, with footnotes
Welcoming summer can involve a variety of activities, from enjoying outdoor adventures and seasonal flavors to incorporating summer themes into your home and wardrobe. The transition to summer is a time of warmth, sunshine, and a sense of freedom, often associated with positive emotions like happiness and fun… Please follow link for full post
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11 paintings, Richard Durando Togo’s Day at the Market, with Footnotes
A “gypsy fruit market” refers to a market, often temporary or itinerant, where fruits and vegetables are sold, sometimes by Romani people… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David and Julie Roberts, with footnotes
The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist’s friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution…” Please follow link for full post
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3 Paintings by Pol Mara; Caryatides, Gun and The Poet, with footnotes
Pol Mara (Antwerp 1920-1998) was a major guru of the new guration and Belgian Pop Art. In the 1950s, after a figurative start with surrealist connotations, Pol Mara became a widely acclaimed abstract artist… Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, Luo Zhongli’s Crossing the River, with footnotes
Luo Zhongli (born in 1948) is a contemporary Chinese painter and educator. He has a deep affection for rural China and its residents, which have remained a major theme in his body of work… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Gean Smith’s Horses Escaping Wildfire, with footnotes
Sold for $100.00 in June 2022 Gean Smith was a painter and illustrator whose work is especially focused on horses. Gean Smith was born in New York state and moved to Chicago in 1871, where he established a studio until 1884. The next year, he moved to New York City and worked there until 1923, when he settled…
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01 painting, Edmund Blair Leighton’s Faded Laurels, with Footnotes
Estimated at 185 000 – 231 000 USD in June 2023 Blair Leighton depicts an aged harpist whose fame has waned and is overshadowed by a younger colleague. The elderly man is shown sitting on the steps in the foreground of the image, and behind him the crowd is gathered outside the church gate to…
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82 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s “The Disasters of War Series”, with Footnotes
Between 1808 and 1814 the Spanish, the Portuguese and English fought Napoleon’s France in the Peninsular War. In the first part of Goya’s series we witness the scenes of war… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The Art of War, Firelei Báez’s Patterns of Resistance, and Frank Angels’ The Souvenir of Paris, with Footnotes
Works dedicated to the marches and protests that broke out across Europe and North America… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, The amorous game, Fifteen artists imbedded with Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, with Footnotes #101
Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Hero and Leander, Eloise and Abelard or Romeo and Juliet… Please follow link for full post
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, the Edwardian period, with footnotes
British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century lasted during the reign of King Edward VII (1901–10). The Pan-imperial, international, and transatlantic character of British art in that complex period, considered the impact of new technologies—such as electrification, the motor car, recorded sound, and cinema—on painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. It’s emphasis…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Nicolas Tournier’s Tears of Gaza, with footnotes
In this oil painting reminiscent of Nicolas Tournier’s style, the canvas depicts the harrowing scene of a Gazan mother’s despair amidst the chaos and destruction of her city. The composition is filled with a sense of hopelessness and anguish. Buildings reduced to ruins stand as silent witnesses to the devastating effects of conflict. The air…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Georges Clairin’s Le Carnage, with footnotes
Georges Clairin trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and became known for grand historical paintings, Symbolist themes, and portraits. Le Carnage may draw from extravaganzas he witnessed in Morocco that involved hundreds of Arab horsemen in mock equestrian battles. This painting was among several of his large compositions of anecdotal dreamscapes set in exotic surroundings…
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The Art of War; This Day in History The Egyptians were defeated in the Battle of the Pyramids
22 Artists Embedded With Napoleon’s French Campaign In Egypt And Syria – Part I Napoleon’s Army of Egypt used a new military tactic, the massive divisional square, to defeat the Egyptian forces of Murād Bey this day in 1798 at the Battle of the Pyramids during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Fritz Burmann’s Lamentation, with footnotes
Fritz Burmann was born in 1892 in Westphalian Wiedenbrück. From 1909-12 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under August Deusser, becoming his master student, and at the Academy in Munich under Heinrich Knirr. This was followed by study trips through Europe, before he received a teaching position at the academy in Königsberg in 1926. In 1936…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s Escena de guerra (War scene), with footnotes
Scene from the Spanish war of independence (between 1808 and 1812) Francisco Goya was a talented Spanish painter and printmaker, and is considered one of the last of the Old Masters of painting, as well as the first of the moderns. He began his apprenticeship in painting at the age of 14, and his talent was…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Arnold Böcklin’s The Battle on the Bridge, with footnotes
Estimate for 800,000 – 1,200,000 GBP in June 2024 The battle on the bridge between the Roman army and the advancing Germanic tribes reflects a broader fascination during the nineteenth century for the fall of the Roman Empire. Böcklin’s choice of subject was no doubt also influenced by philosophies current at the time, notably Nietzsche’s…