Category: Paris
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
Van Gogh painted this sketch of a brothel parlor while working in close dialogue with fellow artist Paul Gauguin. In the fall of 1888, Van Gogh convinced Gauguin to join him in Arles in the South of France, and the two artists often painted there side by side. They also visited brothels together, partly to…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Eugène Galien-Laloue’s Arc de Triomphe, Part 35 – With Footnotes
Estimate at 5,000 – 7,000 USD in October 2021 The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l’Étoile — the étoile or “star” of the juncture formed by its twelve…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Antoon Heinsbergen’s Paris Opera House, with footnotes, Part 83
A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies. Anthony Heinsbergen (December 13, 1894 – June 14, 1981) was an American muralist considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors. Born Antoon Heinsbergen in Haarlem (the Netherlands), he…
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09 Painting, Streets of Paris, Nine of Olga Novokhatska’s Parisian Cafés and Brasseries, with footnotes, Part #79
Located at the tip of Ile Saint-Louis, opposite Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, the Brasserie de l’Isle Saint-Louis welcomes you in its warm decor typical of Parisian brasseries of the 1930s. A family establishment that has seen three generations at the helm since the 1950s, the Brasserie de l’Isle Saint-Louis is still run by the same…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jane Peterson’s In a Café, with footnotes, Part #78
This character study of a sophisticated, elegantly-dressed woman nestled in the corner of a Parisian café near a samovar is one of the most ambitious early figurative paintings by the American painter). Although best known today for her sunny floral and garden views as well as her colorful scenes of Gloucester, Peterson devoted considerable energy…
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02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Giovanni Boldini’s Al caffè and Scène de fête, with footnotes, Part #84
Here, Boldini is certainly depicting the Moulin-Rouge just after it opened in 1889. The establishment quickly became one of the hot spots of Parisian nightlife. The vigorous and dynamic brushstrokes and the liveliness of the red recreate the feeling of fun and freedom… Please follow link for full post
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08 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Pierre Bonnard’s Place Clichy, with footnotes, Part #83
Bonnard’s La Place Clichy depicts a busy Parisian square near Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, which was a popular artists’ quarter in the early twentieth century. Bonnard and his fellow artist Édouard Vuillard, who lived nearby, took joy in observing and painting the crowded streets around Place Clichy and the bohemian lifestyle of its inhabitants……
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09 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by Claude Monet, Honoré Daumier, Paul Lucien Maze, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, MICHEL DELACROIX, Marc Chagall, Stanislas Lépine, Henri Lebasque and Paul Signac – Part 8 – With Footnotes
Paris, France’s capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Beyond such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, the city is known for its cafe culture and designer boutiques along…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Norbert Goeneutte’s At the theatre, with footnotes, Part #82
Norbert Goeneutte (23 July 1854, Paris – 9 October 1894, Auvers-sur-Oise) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator; notably for the novel La Terre by Émile Zola. He entered the École des Beaux-arts and began studies with Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. He frequented the Père Lathuille, a famous cabaret, where he met Manet and was…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, CHARLES MALLE’s La loterie du manège à Montmartre, with footnotes, Part 88
Charles Gleize, known as Charles Malle, was born on August 9 1935 in Douai in Northern France and brought up in a family of craftsmen. His Post-Impressionist paintings are very popular and collectible in both France and the United States. He is associated with the School of Montmartre, a loosely knit group of painters that goes…
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12 Paintings of the streets of Paris in the 19th C, by Jean Béraud, Eugène Galien-Laloue, Edouard Henri Leon Cortès, Antoine Blanchard, Gustave Loiseau, with footnotes
Here Gustave Loiseau chose to paint an area of Paris he had been familiar with for a long time. In 1887, when he had decided to devote himself to painting, Gustave Loiseau had settled in Montmartre, in rue de Ravignan. Rue Clignancourt is only a few steps away, at the foot of the hill it…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Leo Putz’s BACKSTAGE, with footnotes, Part 87
Painted in 1905, this monumental early work of cancan dancers at ease backstage is among Putz’s most ambitious compositions. Inspired by his stay in Paris, Backstage is a masterful evocation of the French capital’s demi-monde that was the source of fascination to so many painters, most famously Toulouse Lautrec. Putz would have frequented Pigalle’s many…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Laureano Barrau Buñol’s Les plaisirs de Paris, with footnotes, Part 86
Belle Époque Paris was a city full of pleasures. A celebrated pocket guide to the city’s newest and newsworthy haunts, aptly titled Les plaisirs de Paris (written by the journalist Alfred Delvau and first published 1867), an advertisement for which is visible at the center of the painting, promised readers entrée into la ville du…
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by the Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
It seems that since the Musee dÓrsay’s Exhibition, everybody had something to say! Here are some Paintings that were in the exhibition, and others… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Lucien Genin’s La Place de L’Opera, with footnotes, Part 84
The Place de l’Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of boulevard des Italiens, boulevard des Capucines, avenue de l’Opéra, rue Auber, rue Halévy, rue de la Paix and rue du Quatre-Septembre. It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine’s Paris, Bords de Seine vers Pont Marie, with footnotes, Part 83
The Pont Marie is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France. The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l’Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow traffic flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left and Right banks of Paris. The Pont Marie links the Right Bank…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Le pavillon de la Marée aux Halles-Centrales de Paris, with footnotes, Part 82
The building, which was an answer to Emperor Napoléon’s III (1808-18773) sanitary demands and reforms, fascinated the first photographers. At each of the 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881 Salons, Gilbert exhibited at least one painting depicting the Halles of Paris. Gilbert’s composition depicting the fish pavilion, which was at the time in the north of the market, at…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Harry Kernoff’s Sunday Evening – Place du Combat, Paris, with footnotes, Part 81
In the present example, rather than the more customary Dublin scene, Kernoff provides a glimpse of Paris yet with the same distinctive flair. Bathed in the last of the evening sun which casts long and playful shadows, Parisiens – from flat-capped commuters, tradesmen and the rounded and suited gentleman half appearing behind the flowing canopy…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Maurice Brazil Prendergast’s Montparnasse, with footnotes, Part 80
The Boulevard du Montparnasse is a two-way boulevard in Montparnasse, in the 6th, 14th & 15th arrondissements in Paris. Students in the 17th century who came to recite poetry in the hilly neighbourhood nicknamed it after “Mount Parnassus”, home to the nine Muses of arts and sciences in Greek mythology. The hill was levelled to construct…
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