Category: Art
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1 Painting, The art of War, Stanley Spencer’s Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, with footnotes
Spencer was commissioned to create this painting in April 1918 by the British War Memorials Committee. In his owns words Spencer wanted to show ‘God in the bare real things, in a limber wagon, in ravines, in fouling mule lines.’ Of those he depicts he said ‘during these nights the wounded passed through the dressing…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Tony Robert-Fleurys The Last Day of Corinth, with footnotes
In 146 BC, the Greek city of Corinth fell to Rome. Robert-Fleury depicts the moment when the Roman army enters the sacked city. The women of Corinth, fearing the fate reserved for them, took refuge at the foot of the statue of Athena. The work of the young artist, who took three years to complete…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Constant Meyer’s Recognition, with footnotes
Recognition: North and South is a painting of a Union soldier who is dying on the battlefield. The reason it is called Recognition is that there is a Confederate soldier holding him, supposedly his brother who was fighting for the Confederacy during the same battle. This powerful painting captures the sorrow of the Civil War…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Howard Pyle’s The Shell, with footnotes
In his painting The Shell, Howard Pyle depicts the caves dug into a hillside as bomb shelters by families in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the city’s Civil War siege. The great danger of these cave is described in detail in a first-hand account by William W. Lord, Jr. in “A Child at the Siege of Vicksburg,”…
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1 Painting, The art of War, John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, with footnotes
A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an exaggerated posture as…
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02 Paintings, Gottfried Helnwein’s The Disasters of War 3 and Eyes That Knew No Shade of Sin or Fear, with footnotes
Children are the heroes of Helnwein’s Disasters of War series. His emphasis on the child is sincerely rooted in his own deficient childhood, which the artist describes as a gray period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Peter Paul Rubens, Consequences of War, 1638-1639, with footnotes
Consequences of War, also known as Horror of war, serves as a commentary on a European continent ravaged by the Thirty Years’ War, and the artist employed numerous symbols, both contemporary and ancient, to deplore the state of the continent. Mars the Roman god of war charges with shield and sword as well as breastplate…
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01 Painting, Dean Cornwell’s Wartime Evacuation, with Footnotes
Estimate for $10,000 – $15,000 in Nov 2023 Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. Cornwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles L. Cornwell, was a civil engineer whose drawings of industrial subjects fascinated Cornwell as a child. He began his professional career as a cartoonist…
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Thomas Beach’s Portraits of Mrs. Siddons, with Footnotes #229
Sold for £31,250 in April 2015 “Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.But you are life and you are the veilBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirrorBut you are eternity and you are the mirror”Kahlil Gibrain Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist,…
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03 Works, Tyler Shields’ Gators, with Footnotes #89
On a flight from Paris to London? British actress Jane Birkin, sitting next to Jean-Louis Dumas, Executive Chairman of Hermès (1978–2006), was complaining that she couldn’t find a bag suitable for her needs as a young mother… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Giovanni Battista Torriglia’s The artist’s studio , with Footnotes #87
Sold for $4,000 USD in February 2023 The studio of any artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as “from the workshop of…” or “studio of…” An art studio is sometimes called an atelier, especially in earlier eras. More on The studio Giovanni Battista Torriglia was an…
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09 Paintings, Marine Art, On this date in 1620, English colonists aboard the Mayflower set sail for America, with Footnotes #310
Mayflower was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Robert Neal’s The Agony of Ethiopia , with Footnotes #88
Estimated for US$12,000 – US$18,000 in July 2022 A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia’s 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia. Almost…
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01 Work, Adrienne, Alexis Joseph Mazerolle’s L’Atelier du peintre/ Artist’s Studio, with Footnotes #86
Estimated for $12,000 USD – $18,000 USD in May 2022 Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle (29 June 1826 – 29 May 1889) was a French painter. He was admitted to the École des Arts et Métiers (School of Arts and Crafts), where he showed unusual ability in drawing. In 1843, at the age of 17, he was admitted to…
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01 Work, Adrienne, Antwerp School’s A painter in his studio, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023 The tradition of depicting painters, dealers, and collectors in interiors, surrounded by both identifiable and anonymous paintings from various countries and centuries, was firmly established in Flanders by the first quarter of the 17th century. The present example has been previously thought to be a work by Frans…
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07 Works Welcoming Summer by Robert Patterson, Gareth Reid, Lena Kramarić, Mr STRANGE Jean-Marie GITARD, Kezban Arca Batibeki, Gareth Reid, Caroline Walker and Caroline Walker, with footnotes
Summer begins with the solstice on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 marking the astronomical first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Is it really the longest day of the year? Welcome the solstice with some interesting Art… Please follow link for full post
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03 Works, Malcolm Liepke’s Artist’s Studio, with Footnotes #85
Liepke favors portraits of ordinary women in glamorous contexts, producing voyeuristic nudes that are sexualized through a realistic lens rather than a pornographic one… Please follow link for full post
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07 Paintings by Csok, Istvan (1865-1961) of his “Studio Interior”, with footnotes
The success of the picture at the time is clearly shown by the fact that Csók made several copies of the composition in many versions, some of its details can be seen again in his later pictures. A 1910 version is attached… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, Willem Van Mieris the Elder’s A trumpeter at a casement window, with Footnotes #96
Sold for £390,900 in December 2022 Willem van Mieris (3 June 1662 – 26 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter.…
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2 Paintings by Théodore Géricault of The wounded Cuirassier, with footnotes
Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers, discarding their lances and adopting the use of pistols as their primary weapon. In the later part of the 17th century the cuirassier lost his limb…
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