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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21G
Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 – 1923, SPANISH CHILDREN ON THE SHORE, ,c. 1905 Oil on canvas 33.5 by 63cm., 13 by 24¾in. Private Collection This scene combines one of Sorolla’s most jewel-like renditions of the sea and cliffs of Cabo de San Antonio, Jávea, with a portrayal of a personal family moment. Depicting, from left to right, his three…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21F
Ernest Buttura CÔTE NORMANDE, MER DÉCHAÎNÉE Oil on canvas 200 x 100 cm Private Collection The Normandy coastline stretches for nearly 640km via a series of smaller “côtes” with incredibly evocative names: Côte d’Albâtre (Alabaster Coast), Côte Fleurie (Flower Coast), Côte de Nacre (Mother of Pearl Coast), and so on. Its cliffs form an imposing wall of…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21E
Helene Schjerfbeck, 1862 – 1946, FINNISH ON THE JETTY Oil on canvas 38.5 by 35cm., 15¼ by 13¾in. Private Collection The present work was painted in 1879, the year Schjerfbeck completed her studies under Adolf von Becker in Helsinki, and exhibited for the first time with the Finnish Fine Arts Society. Although distinct from the…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21D
Egon Schiele – 1890 – 1918 Harbor of Trieste, c. 1907 Oil on cardboard Height: 25 cm (9.84 in.) Width: 18 cm (7:09 in.) Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum (United States) The Port of Trieste is a port in the Adriatic Sea in Trieste, Italy. In the period between the beginning of 1700 and 1850, Trieste was…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21B
Egon Schiele Sailing Ship With Dinghy, c. 1908 Oil on cardboard Private Collection Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21A
Maurice VAUMOUSSE (1876-1961) Le bassin à Honfleur Oil on canvas 37 x 55 cm Private Collection Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. Its inhabitants…
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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 17 – With Footnotes
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1847 – 1928, AMERICAN Queen of the Brigands, c. 1882 Oil on canvas Private collection Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder. A brigand is a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. The brigand is an outlaw who conducts warfare after the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 28 – With Footnotes
Eugène Galien-Laloue, (French, 1854-1941) Porte Saint-Martin, Paris Gouache over traces of pencil 26.5 x 45.5cm (10 7/16 x 17 15/16in). Private collection The Porte Saint-Martin is a Parisian monument located at the site of one of the gates of the now-destroyed fortifications of Paris. It is located at the crossing of Rue Saint-Martin, Rue du Faubourg…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #99
Eugène Boudin, (1824–1898) Navires dans le Port à Honfleur/ Ships in the Port at Honfleur, c. 1856 Oil on wood panel Height: 20.3 cm (8 in). Width: 26.5 cm (10.4 in). Princeton University Art Museum Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3a
Gustav Klimt Dame mit Muff (Lady with a Muff), c. 1916 Oil on canvas Private Collection Dame mit Muff. Belonging to the group of late portraits Klimt shows a lady cuddled in her muff- a sophisticated fashion accessory. The background is covered with Asiatic motifs as in most of his lady portraits of 1916. More Klimt painted portraits…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5e
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Julius Hübner, 1806 – 1882 The Fair Melusine, c. 1844 Rudolf…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5d
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Gustave Wertheimer, (Austrian, 1847–1904) A nude woman on ship/ The enchanted sleeper…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5c
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Knut Ekvall, (1843–1912) The Fisherman and The Siren Oil on canvas…
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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5b
Ilya Repin, (1844–1930) Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, c. 1876 Oil on canvas canvas Height: 3,225 mm (126.97 in). Width: 2,300 mm (90.55 in). State Russian Museum Sadko is the principal character in a Russian medieval epic bylina. He was an adventurer, merchant, and musician from Novgorod. One day, as Sadko was playing his gusli/zither on the…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5a
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Arthur Hopkins, 1848-1930 A FANTASY OF THE DEEP, c. 1903 Watercolour…
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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 15
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils, (FRENCH 1813-1875) Family at doorway preparing cous-cous Oil on canvas 90 x 67cm (35.5 x 26.25in) Private collection Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (19 July 1813/15, Paris – 3 December 1875, Paris) was a French painter. Pils was born in Paris. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years. He later studied under François-Édouard…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3d
Gustav Klimt Portrait Of A Lady In White (Unfinished), c. 1917-1918 Oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings,…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3c
William Chadwick, American, 1879-1962 Seated Woman in a Kimono Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches Private Collection The passion for Japanisme that swept through American art in the 1890s is exemplified in Seated Woman in Kimono. Taking an approach inspired by Whistlerian aestheticism, Chadwick offset the broad sweep of his subject’s flowered garment against the compact…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3b
Reginald Marsh, 1898 – 1954 WALKING WOMAN, 1953 Oil on canvasboard 17 3/4 by 13 5/8 inches, (45.1 by 35.6 cm) Private Collection Reginald Marsh (March 14, 1898 – July 3, 1954) was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3a
Master John (floruit 1544-1545) Portrait of Queen Mary I (1516-1558) “Bloody Mary” Oil on panel 711 × 508 cm (279.9 × 200 in) National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants led to the…
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