Tag: Art
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01 Work, Adrienne, Alexis Joseph Mazerolle’s L’Atelier du peintre/ Artist’s Studio, with Footnotes #86
Estimated for $12,000 USD – $18,000 USD in May 2022 Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle (29 June 1826 – 29 May 1889) was a French painter. He was admitted to the École des Arts et Métiers (School of Arts and Crafts), where he showed unusual ability in drawing. In 1843, at the age of 17, he was admitted to…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Cindy Crawford by Sante D’Orazio and Herbert “Herb” Ritts Jr., with footnotes #204
Cindy Crawford, in full Cynthia Ann Crawford, (born February 20, 1966, DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.), American fashion model and television personality who first gained fame in the 1980s and was among the first “supermodels”… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Interpretation of the bible, September 8th. is The Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, with Footnotes #208
According to the story found in the Book of James, or Protevangelion book, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, were childless for many years. They remained faithful to God, but their prayers for a child were unanswered… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice, John Randall Bratby’s Flooded Square of San Marco, with footnotes #117
Venice has suffered its worst flooding in 22 years, leaving some parts of the historic Italian city neck-deep in water, reports said Monday. Water burst the banks of the coastal city’s famed canals, leaving the landmark Piazza San Marco — St Mark’s Square — under almost a meter of water at one point… Please follow link for full post
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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 Painting, Marine Art, Carlos Nadal’s Dieppe. With Footnotes #309
Sold for £21,420 in Mar 2022 Dieppe is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. A port on the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Arques, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century…
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01 Marine Art, James Browning Wyeth’s Surf Watchers, with Footnotes #308
Sold for 151,200 USD in May 2022 Surf Watchers depicts the artist’s wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, leaning out of the Dutch door at the front of their house on Monhegan Island in Maine, where the work was painted. More on this painting James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Henry Guillaume Schlesinger’s Dangerous liaisons, with Footnotes #85
Sold for GBP 13,700 in Jan 2008The present work is a charming example of the subjects favoured by Schlesinger. The scene depicts a group of fashionable figures engaged in narrative interaction surrounding a print. The two ladies turn away in modesty and giggle at its content, while the gentleman leans over them. The elegant interior,…
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, by Louis-Jean-Baptiste Igout from the 1800’s, with footnotes #203
Artists throughout history have been drawn to the human form. Whether it is to compel, to shock or seduce, these artworks remain one of the central subjects of art history while intimately charting the socio-political developments of our many cultures — both old and new… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Elisée Maclet’s Vue de Montmartre, with footnotes, Part 89
Estimated for £1,000 – £1,500 in July 2022 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.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Karl Ferdinand Sohn’s Atoning Magdalene, with Footnotes #205
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €10,000 EUR in May 2015 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is…
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01 Marine Painting, John Jack Robert Charles Spurling’s P. & O. Steamship ‘Soudan, with Footnotes #288
Soudan SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 6,677 tons built in 1931 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow, for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company as the SOUDAN SS. She was powered by a Steam turbine with Bauer Wach exhaust system. Soudan struck a mine and sank off Cape Town. The mine was probably…
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4 Works, Contemporary interpretations of Olympian Deities, Thomas Saliot’s Mermaids, with Footnotes #7
In Greek mythology, the Naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in…
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01 Work, Adrienne, Antwerp School’s A painter in his studio, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023 The tradition of depicting painters, dealers, and collectors in interiors, surrounded by both identifiable and anonymous paintings from various countries and centuries, was firmly established in Flanders by the first quarter of the 17th century. The present example has been previously thought to be a work by Frans…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Henry Le Jeune’s Thy Will be Done, with Footnotes #201
Sold for GBP 8,820 in Jul 2022 This depiction of the Agony in the Garden, on the Mount of Olives, in which, between the Last Supper and his arrest, Christ retired to pray. ‘Agony’ in this context derives from the Greek meaning a contest, and Le Jeune, through juxtaposing the solitary figure of Christ against the…
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01 Marine Painting, Thomas Whitcombe’s Action between Aigle & Sirene, with Footnotes #287
This painting is unusual in depicting ships engaged in battle while carrying full sails, including their studded sails. It was difficult to man the guns and set the full complement of sails. Full sail was needed here because the ships were engaged in a chase. Aigle (a 5th rate ship with 36 guns; under the command of…
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09 works, Today, August 29th, is The Beheading of John the Baptist day, his story illustrated #241
Following the Baptism of the Jesus, Saint John the Baptist was locked up in prison by Herod Antipas, ruler of one fourth of the Holy Land, and governor of Galilee. Herod Antipas received Galilee from the emperor Augustus… Please follow link for full post