Category: Portait of a Lady
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Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan 03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Isadora Duncan, with Footnotes. #60
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50, when her scarf became entangled in the…
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Ştefan Câlţia, Princess 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, A Princess, with Footnotes. #61
Ștefan Câlția (born May 15, 1942) is a contemporary Romanian painter. Born in Brașov, he attended the arts and music high school in Timișoara from 1959 to 1963. He then graduated in 1970 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Since the 1970s, Câlția has held exhibitions in Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and…
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Walter Langhammer, Untitled (Indian Woman with Amphora) 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #59
An amphora is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphorae were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine. More on amphora Walter Langhammer, 1905 – 1977, went to India before World War 2,…
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Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal; Shrouded Woman. 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADYr, with Footnotes. #58
Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal commonly known as B. C. Sanyal (22 April 1901 – 9 August 2003), the doyen of modernism in Indian art, was an Indian painter and sculptor and an Art teacher to three generations of artists. During his lifetime he not just saw the partition of the Indian subcontinent three times, 1905, 1947 and…
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Narayan Shridhar Bendre; Braiding Hair 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #57
Narayan Shridhar Bendre (21 August 1910 – 19 February 1992) (N. S. Bendre) was a 20th-century Indian artist; was born in Indore. He had undergone his early art education in the State Art School, Indore. Thereafter, he obtained his Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933. As he was an enthusiastic traveler he visited many…
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MARIEN MARCEL; Les nouvelles élégances/ The new elegance, c. 1991 01 Photograph, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #56
Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a…
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François Gérard; Portrait de Juliette Récamier 05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Madame Récamier, with Footnotes. #55
François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), was a French painter born in Rome. At the age of twelve Gérard obtained admission into the Pension du Roi in Paris. From the Pension he passed to the studio of the sculptor Augustin Pajou which he left at the end of two…
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Ron Hicks; The Discussion 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #54
Ron Hicks ( Columbus , 1965 ) was born in Columbus, Ohio, and is one of four children of a truck driver. He spent his childhood in the quiet and friendly Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado where the family moved when Ron, and his twin brother Don, were two years old. From an early age…
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Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, JANNANE AL ANI, c. 2006 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #53
Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist, born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an…
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Giuseppe Dangelico Pino; Black Shawl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #51
Pino Daeni- 1939 – 2010, Italian artist, Pino Daeni’s art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family. His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up. Pino is noted for his exceptional ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects – a talent which…
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Francesco Hayez, Matilde Juva Branca 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #50
The figure of the woman, portrayed on a neutral background illuminated by the usual pattern of lights typical of Hayez, is wrapped in black silk dresses from which emerge the white crinoline that frame her face and hands; an arm is placed on the chair on which a light ermine coat is spread, the other…
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Robert Peake, Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Pope 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #49
The black thread depicted here, which normally links the heart and the hands, looks to be broken and may possibly be an allusion to a death and would fit with the traditional identification of the sitter being Elizabeth Watson, who was an heiress at this date. The depiction of her long hair hanging loosely down,…
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Franz von Stuck, DOMINO 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #48
As masquerades flourished in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, Domino was probably the most common mask of all. Typical of the Venetian Carnival, it consisted of a black mask covering only the eyes and was sometimes worn with a cloak over the dress. Shown here held by the model! More on this painting Franz Stuck (February…
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Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Gypsy approach 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #47
By the nineteenth century, Spain had embraced Gypsy myth and lore. The Romantics were in awe of the gypsies for their otherworldliness and seeming ability to commune with nature, while the following generation of artists and writers, driven by patriotism in the wake of Spain’s colonial losses, venerated the gypsy as the quintessential icon of…
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Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Shelley 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #46
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her…
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John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #45
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #42
Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism. She became an artist against great odds, as did any woman in late-18th-century Paris, and aided by the patronage of Marie Antoinette, went on to thrive in a nine-lives, astutely managed sort of…
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #21
Abel Dominique Boye, 1864-1934, FRENCH LA ROUSSE/ The redhead Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 29 in., 100 by 73.5 cm Private collection Abel-Dominique Boyé (6 May 1864–1934) was a French painter. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. His principal works include: Nymph of Diana (bronze medal, 1888); Pit Sawyer (Agen, 1889); Twilight (1891); Sunday in Seville (1893); and…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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