Tag: Art
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Mahmoud Said’s Eid al-Adha, with Footnotes #25
Eid al-Adha, a Muslim festival, marking the culmination of the hajj (pilgrimage) rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia. Eid al-Adha is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer at daybreak on its first day. It begins on the 10th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, June 24th. is Jan Matejko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #171
Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history… Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Biblis and Spring Breeze, with footnotes # 191
Bouguereau writes: “Among my paintings, “Biblis” is one that I love the most, one that I most enjoyed painting; this even though it was inspired by an incident in the atelier. One of my female models had just asked to rest from a tiring pose; when the young woman was in the process of standing…
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03 Works, Robert McGinnis’ interpretations of Richard Scott Prather’s novels Adrienne, Renee and Rose Garland, with Footnotes #83
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment) Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films… Please follow link for full post
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04 Photographs, Albert Watson’s Lisa Taylor, Nina, Monica Gripman and Heloise, 1977, With Footnotes #82
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Michel Corneille the Elder’s Death of Virginia, with Footnotes
Estimated for 150,000 – 250,000 EUR in June 2022The subject recounts the death of Virginia, daughter of a centurion in the Roman army, condemned to marry a slave by one of the magistrates of the decemvir, Appius Claudius Sabinus, because she had rejected his advances. She was stabbed to death by her own father in…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Magdalene Legend’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #183
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 EUR in June 2022In the present painting, characteristics typical of the Master of the Magdalene Legend include the graceful modelling of the flesh; the light falling delicately on the faces; the Virgin’s eyes, piously lowered; the finely delineated hair with lighter reflections; and the shadows on the eyelids and neck. More…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, DOMENICO PIOLA’S Alexander and the family of Darius, with footnotes #36
Sold for EUR 1,842,000 in Jun 2022 In 333 BC Alexander defeated Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Empire, at the Battle of Issus. Darius escaped capture, but his wife Stateira I, his mother, Sisygambis, and his daughters Stateira II and Drypetis were taken by Alexander. Alexander displayed forgiveness in victory. According to Plutarch:…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Max’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 190
Sold for $1,300 USD in January 2022 Peter Max is a German artist known for his unique brand of rainbow-hued prints and paintings, which he has created since the early 1960s. Employing painterly strokes, his illustrations incorporate a wide spectrum of colors and patterns as seen in his Umbrella Man series. “I’m just wowed by the…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Alberto Prosdocimi’s Venice, with footnotes #114
Sold for $8,125 USD in January 2020 Many domestic and international trains discharge passengers at the Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia, an incongruously modern but efficient railway station in the historic center, next to the causeway that leads to the mainland. As they leave the station’s main entrance, they head toward the floating waterbus platforms. Buy a…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Eugène Fromentin’s The Charge, with footnotes #109
Estimate at 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in March 2022Fromentin made his first visit to Algeria secretly, in 1846, to attend a wedding. Returning twice to North Africa, he built a successful career as an Orientalist painter and was a frequent contributor to the Paris Salon. The vivid drama of The Charge is characteristic of Fromentin’s later…
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26 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes #8
Sold for 81,250 GBP in Dec 2016 The girl in the present work wears an ornate Ottoman gold coin headdress with a fringe of star-shaped amulets, and a matching necklace. With her white diaphanous veil and dress, and hair braided into a bun, she is dressed for a special occasion or celebration, possibly her own…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Miles Aldridge’s Better Than Life and Thought after Filthy Thought, with footnotes # 189
Miles Aldridge’s uncanny, saturated portraits riff on cinematic glamour and erotic tropes. Throughout his work, Aldridge draws on a range of influences, from filmmakers such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini to photographer Richard Avedon and movements including Pop art and psychedelia… Please follow link for full post
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01 MARINE PAINTING – PHILIP LODEWIJK JACOB FREDERIK SADÉE’S BRINGING IN THE CATCH, WITH FOOTNOTES #383
Estimated for £30,000 – £50,000 in June 2020 Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School. Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis Cotes’ Portrait of the Duchess of Marlborough, with Footnotes #199
Sold for 15,120 GBP in April 2022 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain. By the time Anne became…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft’s Untitled (La Guitariste/Knowing to Perform), with Footnotes #61
Estimate for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in October 2022Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft was born in Jerusalem in 1947, later lived and grew up in Haifa and Nazareth where she now resides; married with four children. The artist started drawing and painting as a hobby in her childhood. Fourteen years after her marriage, she joined the school of arts…
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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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14 Works, June 18th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #166
Peter Nicolai Arbo (18 June 1831–14 October 1892) was a Norwegian historical painter, who specialized in portraits and allegorical scenes from Norwegian history and the Norse mythology. He is most noted for The Wild Hunt of Odin (See below), a dramatic motif based on the Wild Hunt legend and Valkyrie, which depicts a female figure…
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01 Painting Interpretation of the bible, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #182
Sold for USD 226,800 in un 2022 A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend. According to the tenets of the…
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