Tag: Art
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Harry Kernoff’s July Morn, Place du Tertre, Paris, with footnotes, Part 88
Sold for 50,800 EUR in May 2023 We see Kernoff’s artistic focus reflected in name of the café on the left of the present work: Jeune Peinture. Discreetly sat underneath it – between two cloth capped locals – is Kernoff himself, wearing his customary trilby hat. In the lower right corner, an elderly figure stands with…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Khalil Saleeby’s Salome, with Footnotes #68
Sold for 21,250 USD in November 2017 Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Flavius Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dame Laura Knight’s Make-up (Dressing Room), with Footnotes #150
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in December 2022 The present painting depicts the inner sanctum of the ballerinas world, the cluttered dressing-room where a group of young ballerinas are applying their lipstick, filing their finger-nails and assessing their make-up in the mirrors. Knight described the scene of a ballerina’s dressing-room thus; ‘The dressing-table, crowded with pots…
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13 Works, July 8th. is Christiaen van Couwenbergh’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #185
Christiaen van Couwenbergh, (8 July 1604–4 July 1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Christiaen learned to paint from Johan van Nes, and then entered the Guild of St. Luke in Delft in 1627. He then travelled back and forth to Italy. Christiaen learned to paint from Johan van Nes, and then entered the Guild…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’s Saint Margaret of Antioch, with Footnotes – part #223
Estimated for 15,000 – 20,000 USD in October 2022 This panel once formed the right wing of a devotional triptych, and it is a recent addition to the corpus of the Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy. More on this work St. Margaret of Antioch, also called St. Marina, (flourished 3rd or 4th century, Antioch, Syria),…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, il Perugino’s Madonna and Child with two cherubs, With Footnotes – #174
This painting illustrates the painter’s masterful drawing technique and his unique ability, anticipating Raphael, to execute holy iconography even in a small format painting. The cherub’s heads, which had been obscured by dark paint, came back to light after a restoration carried out in 1927. Following a sale later that same year, the painting entered…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Lucien Laurent-Gsell’s Suicidée, with footnotes, Part 87
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in June 2023 The painting, which is larger than life-size, may be «Suicidée!» which Laurent-Gsell exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. A young woman has been pulled from the Seine by two strapping men, wearing workman’s boots and blue trousers, with water still dripping…
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01 Etching, The amorous game, Gene Kloss’ Chance Encounter, with Footnotes #101
Estimate for $700 – $1,000 in June 2023 Gene Kloss (Born Oakland, CA 1903-died Taos, New Mexico 1996) grew up in the Bay Area. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied with Perham Nahl, her instructor in life class and anatomy, who also gave a course in etching. Amazed by the first…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Adrien Dekeyser’s Annonciation, with Footnotes – #54
Estimated for 3,000 – 5,000 EUR in Mar 2023 The Annunciation is the announcement by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and bear a son through a virgin birth and become the mother of Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah and Son of God, marking the Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to name her son…
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07 Works, Today, June 18th, is martyr Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus’s day, their story in Paintings #169
Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus were Roman soldiers who, according to Christian tradition, were martyred for their faith… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Daniele da Volterra’s The Madonna of the Zodiac – with footnotes #202
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 USD in Jan 2023 On the present sheet the light falls strongly from the left, enhancing the voluminous and heavy draped cloth which, covering the Madonna’s plaited hair, falls down behind her back to create two large folds to the side of her right hip. These, like waves, return to…
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01 Painting, Yusuf Arakkal’s Untitled, with footnotes
Estimated for Rs 2,50,000-Rs 3,500,00 ( $3,050-$4,270 ) in June 2023 Yusuf Arakkal (1945 – 2016) was an Indian artist. Arakkal was born in Chavakkad, Kerala. Both his parents died when he was young. Leaving the comforts of his house behind, he left for Bangalore, lonely but with a passion to become a painter. The hardships…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, MT COHEN’s Portrait of a woman, with Footnotes. #144
I have not been able to find ant information on the artist, MT COHEN. The artist’s first piece to be offered at auction was “M.T. COHEN Portrait de femme” at Artcurial in 2022. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, Middle East Artists, 365 Saints and 365 Days, also…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Jan Miel’s The feeding of the poor at the gates of a monastery – with footnotes #199
Estimated for £7,000 – £10,000 in June 2025 The Seven Acts of Mercy, also known as the Corporal Works of Mercy, are a set of seven compassionate acts that address the physical needs of others, according to Catholic tradition. They include feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting…
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16 Works, Today, June 6th. is Diego Velázquez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #155
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a 17th-century Spanish painter who produced “Las Meninas” and many renowned portraits as a member of King Philip IV’s royal court… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artist; Henry-Jean Pontoy’s Watermelon seller, with footnotes, #101
Estimate for 8,000 – 12,000 EUR in June 2017 Henri Jean Pontoy was a French painter remembered as one of the last proponents of Neoclassical Orientalism. His best-known works depict urban North African scenes populated by local people and architecture rendered in warm, vibrant oil paint and watercolor. His interest in Orientalist themes followed his awarding of a scholarship…
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