Category: Portait of a Lady
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01 work PORTRAIT OF A LADY, PAUL SÉRUSIER’s Jeune bretonne tricotant, with Footnotes #225
Estimated for GBP 30,000 – GBP 50,000 in Jun 2022 Jeune bretonne tricotant evokes an atmosphere of religious mysticism that echoes the work of Paul Gauguin, who exerted a profound influence on Sérusier. Greatly inspired by Gauguin’s use of bold areas of colour and his subject matter – in particular his Breton landscapes – Sérusier…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Mel Ramos’ Wonder Woman, with Footnotes #219
Sold for US$2,500 in ?Known for his provocative images that mix the idealized woman with imagery of popular culture, this lithograph by Mel Ramos depicts one of the most iconic fictional superheroes: Wonder Woman. Depicted here with voluptuous curves and with her hands behind her head in a departure from her signature hands-on-hips power pose, Ramos…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francisco Miralles y Galup’s At the Market, with Footnotes #215
All it takes is a handful of birdseed to transform any tourist visiting Venice’s historic St. Mark’s Square into a human perch for a fluttering mass of pushy pigeons. Venice has long been concerned with the potential hazards the birds pose to human health, not to mention the damage caused by their guano and taste…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hocine Ziani’s The Queen Tin Hinan, with Footnotes #212
Tin Hinan was a 4th-century Tuareg queen. Her monumental tomb is located in the Sahara, at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. Tin Hinan is sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Hoggar”. The name literally means “woman of the tents”, but may be metaphorically translated as “mother of us all”. According to the stories…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Canon’s Kitchen piece with maid, with Footnotes #210
A young woman stretches for a wicker basket with turnips, turned her head in three-quarter profile towards the viewer. The flowy dress reveals her muscular body and glowing skin. In front of her in an artful arrangement are fish, game and various vegetables. More on this painting Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HUBLIN Émile Auguste’s Jeune paysanne, with Footnotes #206
Emile-Auguste Hublin was a painter best-known for peasant genre scenes rendered in a Neoclassical style, Emile Auguste Hublin (1830–c. 1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou. In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Mary Villiers as Saint Agnes, with Footnotes #198
Sold for £5,100 in April 2022 The original painting (in the Royal Collection, Windsor) was presumably painted for Charles I, who gave the sitter away at her wedding to the Duke of Lennox in 1637. It has been remarked that she looks older than 15, the age she would have been in the year of her…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, with Footnotes #197
Estimate at 5,000—8,000 USD in July 2022 Renowned for his carefully composed, cinematic photographs, Helmut Newton was one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. He fundamentally changed the nature of fashion photography through his edgy approach to subject matter, and strong formal intuition. Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Gyula Tornai’s Japán Masszirozónő (The Blind Masseuse), with Footnotes #196
Estimated at USD 70,000 – USD 90,000 in Apr 2022 The goze stands fully frontal, holding her staff in one hand and a blue enameled teapot in the other, her shamisen slung across her back. Her clothing, though not richly embroidered nor of expensive cloth, is patterned and her hair is wrapped in a pastel patterned scarf. She…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philippe Mercier’s Portrait of Lady Mary Watson Wentworth, with Footnotes #195
Sold for £4,462.50 on April 2022 Mary Watson-Wentworth, Marchioness of Rockingham (née Liddell, later Bright; 1735 – 19 December 1804) was the wife of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was prime minister of Great Britain in 1782 and again from 1765 to 1766. Born c. 1735 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, she was the only…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s Veiled Somali Woman , with Footnotes #194
Sold on Apr 13, 2022 for $656.25Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Between them, Beckwith and Fisher have published 14 books, and have had their photos appear in…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jehangir Sabavala’s Sorcerer – II, with Footnotes. #192
Sold for Rs 1,51,525 | $2,048 in March 2022Jehangir Sabavala (23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011). He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai’s Sir J. J. School of Art in 1944. Thereafter he went to Europe and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, (1945–47),…
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3 Paintings, Richard Redgrave’s The Outcasts, with footnotes The Outcast
In an age when sexual innocence was highly valued and sex for a respectable woman was deemed appropriate only within marriage, the loss of chastity for an unwed woman had multiple repercussions… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Franciszek Zmurko’s Hetaera, with Footnotes #188
A Hetaera was a type of prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and talker aside from providing sexual service. Unlike the rule for ancient Greek women, hetairas would be highly educated and were allowed in the symposium. More on Hetaeras Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv — 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Shirin Neshat’s Unveiling, with Footnotes #187
In the present work, the woman stands still, appears silent yet confident and her gaze captivates the viewer. The Farsi words, amalgams of poems and prose by the Iranian writers Forough Farokhzad and Tahereh Saffarzadeh, ornament the woman’s body, but they are not only decorative as they define the woman’s quest for self-expression and reveal…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Rubens, Petrus Paulus’ Marie de Médicis, with Footnotes #183
Marie de’ Medici (French: Marie de Médicis, Italian: Maria de’ Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as regent legally expired…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edward Angelo Goodall’s The Bride, with Footnotes. #182
Goodall made two journeys to the East. Feeling restricted by the genre images which he was producing, he spent the winter of 1858-9 in Egypt. Much of the trip was spent in the company of the Bavarian born watercolorist Carl Haag. The account he gave of his visit leaves no doubt of the visual excitement…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s Pensive Moments, with Footnotes #180
In Pensive Moments, Bridgman presents a favorite subject, a North African woman in exotic dress with gauze sleeves, a bodice over her shoulders, and a conical hat usually worn by the women of Tlemcen — a town in northwestern Algeria. Bridgman described the costume in his book Winters in Algeria (1890), commenting that it resembled Moroccan…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Long’s The Assyrian Captive, with Footnotes. #178
The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This is one of the many instances of the resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Kingdom of Israel was conquered…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edgardo Saporetti’s Italian Mother with two children, with Footnotes. #100
The young woman leans against a house wall with a view of the viewer, a small child on her breast, the older daughter looking at the child. Edgardo Saporetti (Bagnacavallo, 1865 – Bellaria, 1909) was an Italian painter of eclectic subjects, including portraits, landscapes, and genre subjects. He was the son of Pietro Saporetti, painter and…
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