Category: Art
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01 Work, The Art of War, Witold Pruszkowski’s The death of Anhelli, with footnotes
Sold for zł20,000 PLN in December 2014 Anhelli is a prose poem written by Polish Romantic-era poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki in 1837 and published the following year in Paris. The poem was written in the spring of 1837 in an Armenian monastery known as Betcheszban (Resting Place of the Dead) in Ghazir, a town in…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Wang Yancheng’s Sans titre 05, with footnotes
Estimate for 500,000 – 800,000 HKD in Nov 2023 Wang Yan Cheng was born Jan 9th 1960, in the Guangdong province (southern tip of China). Studies at Shandong Academy of Fine Arts and receives his diploma in 1985, becomes Assistant professor there as of 1986. Wang Yan Cheng arrives in France (Saint-Étienne region) in 1989.…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Greg Rutkowski and Kalin Popov’s Digital Paintings, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Halo of Light, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 137,500 in Oct 2018 In the present scene, a Palestinian Feda’i guerilla fighter is enshrined by a luminous white light, inferred by the title to be a luminous halo; the man rests beneath an olive tree. While simple in its depicted subjects, the scene is ripe with powerful symbolism and irony; as the work…
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Tooker’s Landscape with Figures II, with footnotes
Estimated for 80,000 – 120,000 USD in Nov 2023 Tooker’s figures are gaunt but muscled, delicately balancing the fragility of age with a sense of inner strength; the leftmost appears to be modeled directly after Domenichino’s St. Jerome . Their expressions are enigmatic, reflecting a groggy surprise as they turn to the light, resurrected from the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, GEORGE GROSZ’S PUNISHMENT (STREET SCENE), with footnotes
Sold for 20,160 USD in October 2020 George Grosz is one of the principal artists associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, along with Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, and was a member of the Berlin Dada group. After observing the horrors of war as a soldier in World War I, Grosz focused his…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jeremy Mann’s The Death Angel, with footnotes
In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. “The destroyer” kills the first-born of the Egyptians, and the “destroying angel” rages among the people in Jerusalem. The “angel of the Lord” is seen by David standing “between the earth and the heaven,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Thirst, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 17,500 in Oct 2019 While thirst may sap the morale of troops on the battlefield, the lack of a safe water supply may force a population into exile and condemn crops and livestock to wither and die. To attack water is to attack an entire way of life… Ismail Shammout (1930 –…
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05 Works, The Art of War, Alain Provost’s Fragility, NEW FACE, Oceans, CORPUS and RENAISSANCE, with footnotes
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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi’s Expulsion from the Homeland, with footnotes
Sold for 10,625 GBP in April 2019 The Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) in 1948 was a defining moment in Palestinian history that affected the life, culture and identity of the Palestinian people in immeasurable ways, and concurrently, the evolution of Palestinian art. Palestinian art was still in its early stages of development in the mid-1900s as…
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06 Photographs, The Art of War, Bojan Jevtić’s vision of a vision, with footnotes
Bojan Jevtic is a Serbian visual artist. Born in Belgrade, he has had a long, illustrious career. His artworks are in art book ” Masters of Contemporary Fine Art” with the artworks from other famous artists all over the world… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Ismail Shammout’s Crucifixion, with footnotes
Sold for 113,400 GBP in October 2020 Crucifixion is without question, a striking work. It is gripping and daunting, but in its abstraction, it is softened by form and a nuanced use of imagery. Shammout handles clear symbols of sacrifice and loss with a delicate sensitivity that makes what can be deeply uncomfortable and sensitive subject matter,…
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01 Painting, The art of War, André Fougeron’s Massacre at Sakiet, with footnotes
Sixty-eight Tunisian civilians were killed in a raid on the village of Sakiet Sidi Yousef in 1958. The attack was part of French repressions in neighbouring Algeria, and provoked condemnation around the world. Shocked by the event, de Francia dedicated this epic canvas to the innocent victims. Rather than attempting an accurate record, he used…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi’s Bride at the Refugee Camp, with footnotes
Sold for €10,000.00 in December 2021 Poverty is a strong driver of child marriage among Syrian refugees, while social protection programmes and educational opportunities for girls have played a protective role in Gaza. In both contexts, our findings underscore the multiple and intersecting negative effects of child marriage on girls’ health and bodily integrity, and point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Tanks, with footnotes
A view looking up to the underside of two tanks. The tanks are cresting a low rise, their treads rearing up towards the grey sky. Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Laila Shawa’s Target 2009, with footnotes
Sold for £ 6,000 in Jun 2009 Target 2009 was created as a direct response to the tragically high death toll amongst Gaza’s children due to Israeli military assaults earlier in 2009. A variation of the iconic Target (1992) from Shawa’s Walls of Gaza I silk screen series, it is also related to Targets (1994) from Walls…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Matthew Somerville Morgan’s The Storming Of Delhi, with footnotes
Thomas H. Sherratt’s original engraving and etching, The Storming of Delhi is based upon a design created by Matthew Somerville Morgan (M. S. Morgan), depicting the siege of Kashmiri Gate (Delhi) during the Uprising of 1857. By 14 September 1857 the British had about 9,000 men before the rebel-held city of Delhi. A third were…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Jaswant Singh’s Mural Depicting 1919 Amritsar Massacre – Jallianwala Bagh, with footnotes
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during annual Baishakhi fair, to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlu and Satyapal. In response to the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Payag’s Nasiri Khan Directing the Siege of Qandahar, with footnotes
The Siege of Kandhar by the artist Payag shows the detonation of mines that Mughal forces have laid under the walls of a Deccani fort. In the foreground a bejewelled general gestures grandly towards the flames and billows of smoke. These will destroy the fort’s outer walls and cause the defenders to capitulate. Mughal soldiers in…
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