Category: Paris
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Miroslava Zaharieva, Notre-Dame Cathedral 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 69 – With Footnotes
Notre-Dame de Paris is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained…
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Jean Dufy, PARIS, MONTMARTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 68 – With Footnotes
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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Jean Dufy, L’Institut et la Passerelle des Arts, 1929 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 67 – With Footnotes
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the “Palais des Arts” under the First French Empire). The bridge has sometimes served as a…
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Eugène Galien-Laloue, Communiantes a Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
Communicants are people who partake or are entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church. Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent…
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Pierre Bonnard, Rue Tholozé 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Tholozé Street is one of the trendy streets of the Abbesses district. It owes it’s celebrity to it’s proximity to Montmartre, and the Moulin de la Galette. This street, 185 meters long and 8 meters wide, owes its name to a general who was famous during the conquest of Algeria, Henri Alexis Tholozé (1781-1853). Pierre Bonnard (3…
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Jean Dufy, Vue de Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 64 – With Footnotes
Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and Picasso, Dufy created watercolors that expressed a heightened understanding of color and light. In the mid-1920s, Jean Dufy became captivated by the…
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Jean Beraud, French, Carrefour Drouot 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 67 – With Footnotes
The rue Drouot was created in the early eighteenth century, but it was extended in the second half of the nineteenth century, following the “Haussmannization” of Paris. The street housed many “magasins de nouveautés”, as well as the famous Hôtel Drouot, which, to this day, is the most renowned auction gallery in the French capital city. More…
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Louis Marie de Schryver, The Flower Market on the Île de la Cité 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
The Île de la Cité is one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the Île Saint-Louis).[a] It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded. More on The Île de la Cité Louis Marie de Schryver, born in Paris in 1862, Louis…
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Antonio Gravina, Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Parisian street scene in the rain with a flower stall, crowds of people, and street cars in the foreground before building and a grey sky in the background. Antonio Gravina was born in Naples in 1934 and studied at the Art Institute in that city. He started painting when only fifteen years old. Gravina’s great fantasy…
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Elizabeth Elkin, Cafe in Montmartre, La Maison Rose 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 67 – With Footnotes
La Maison Rose is a Montmartre canteen frequented by several generations of artists, Picasso, Modigliani, later Piaf, Barbara, Aznavour, Nougaro, Brel, or Camus … This emblematic place of Montmartre opened its doors at the end of 2017, taken over by a new team, as well as Béatrice’s granddaughter, who bought La Maison Rose in 1948. La…
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Albert André, Untitled 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 66 – With Footnotes
Albert André ( 24 May 1869 – 11 July 1954) was a French Post-Impressionist figurative painter. He produced portraits of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his closest friend, and Claude Monet. Born in Lyon, he initially trained there designing patterns for silk. In 1889 he moved to Paris to enroll at the Académie Julian. There he met Paul Ranson,…
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Helmut Newton, Kissing Rue Aubriot 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 64 – With Footnotes
Rue Aubriot is named after Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris under Charles V. The latter is known to have taken measures of leniency with regard to the Jews of Paris. For this, he was accused of impiety, imprisoned in the Bastille, then released by mutineers. He is also the builder of the Bastille, on which he…
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Jean Dufy, Vue aérienne de Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 62 – With Footnotes
Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and Picasso, Dufy created watercolors that expressed a heightened understanding of color and light. In the mid-1920s, Jean Dufy became captivated by the music…
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Victor-Gabriel Gilbert, THE FLOWER VENDOR 01 Painting, Streets of Pari, Part 65 – With Footnotes
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the “Palais des Arts” under the First French Empire); between 1802 and 1804, under the reign…
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Fried Pal, Untitled, (Can Can Dancers) 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 63 – With Footnotes
The can-can is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. Originally danced by both sexes, it is now traditionally associated with a chorus line of female dancers. The main features of the dance are the vigorous manipulation of…
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Elizabeth Elkin, Cafe in Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 61 – With Footnotes
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of…
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Christopher James, Chez Camille, Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Located along the route up from Place des Abbesses to Montmartre, next to the Bateau-Lavoir building where Picasso once had a workshop, Chez Camille has lost none of its charm. The tiny terrace and sprinkling of tables in this place perched high above the hubbub of the city are always keenly sought after. More on Chez Camille…
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HERMAN PEKEL, Paris Evening 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 59 – With Footnotes
“The tactile quality of impasto oil paint, its smell, the feel, had me addicted when only twelve years old. Forty years later, the addiction has grown into an obsession. The subject for me, personally is less consequential than the simple matter of applying paint to canvas. As long as the shapes within the picture plane…
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Jean Dufy, Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of…
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Jean Dufy, Aerial view of Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and Picasso, Dufy created watercolors that expressed a heightened understanding of color and light. In the mid-1920s, Jean Dufy became captivated by the music…
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