Tag: Arthistory
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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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04 Works, Welcoming Summer 2025 by Paul Gustav Fischer, Slim Aarons Jess Cochrane and Andre Gittelson Gisson, with footnotes
Welcoming summer can involve a variety of activities, from enjoying outdoor adventures and seasonal flavors to incorporating summer themes into your home and wardrobe. The transition to summer is a time of warmth, sunshine, and a sense of freedom, often associated with positive emotions like happiness and fun… Please follow link for full post
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11 paintings, Richard Durando Togo’s Day at the Market, with Footnotes
A “gypsy fruit market” refers to a market, often temporary or itinerant, where fruits and vegetables are sold, sometimes by Romani people… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David and Julie Roberts, with footnotes
The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist’s friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution…” Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, Luo Zhongli’s Crossing the River, with footnotes
Luo Zhongli (born in 1948) is a contemporary Chinese painter and educator. He has a deep affection for rural China and its residents, which have remained a major theme in his body of work… Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, Today, March 25th. is artist Cherubino Cornienti’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #83
Cherubino Cornienti (March 25, 1816 – May 12, 1860) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style mainly in Northern Italy. When he was early 12 years of age, he was admitted to the Brera Academy. In 1835, he participated in the annual exhibition at the Academy… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Gean Smith’s Horses Escaping Wildfire, with footnotes
Sold for $100.00 in June 2022 Gean Smith was a painter and illustrator whose work is especially focused on horses. Gean Smith was born in New York state and moved to Chicago in 1871, where he established a studio until 1884. The next year, he moved to New York City and worked there until 1923, when he settled…
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01 painting, Edmund Blair Leighton’s Faded Laurels, with Footnotes
Estimated at 185 000 – 231 000 USD in June 2023 Blair Leighton depicts an aged harpist whose fame has waned and is overshadowed by a younger colleague. The elderly man is shown sitting on the steps in the foreground of the image, and behind him the crowd is gathered outside the church gate to…
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82 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s “The Disasters of War Series”, with Footnotes
Between 1808 and 1814 the Spanish, the Portuguese and English fought Napoleon’s France in the Peninsular War. In the first part of Goya’s series we witness the scenes of war… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works, The Art of War, Firelei Báez’s Patterns of Resistance, and Frank Angels’ The Souvenir of Paris, with Footnotes
Works dedicated to the marches and protests that broke out across Europe and North America… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir John Everett Millais’ The Order of Release, with Footnotes
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) was defeated by the English at Culloden on 16 April 1746 and many of his supporters were imprisoned. The subject of this picture is the release of one of these Jacobite rebels from prison. The rebel’s wife, supporting their small child and comforting her exhausted, wounded husband, hands an order of release…
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15 Works, The amorous game, Fifteen artists imbedded with Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, with Footnotes #101
Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Hero and Leander, Eloise and Abelard or Romeo and Juliet… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Artist’s Studio, Jean Georges Vibert’s A Break in the Studio, with footnotes
Estimate at 20,000 – 30,000 USD in May 2023Jehan Georges Vibert or Jean Georges Vibert (30 September 1840 – 28 July 1902) was a French academic painter. He was born in Paris, the son of engraver and publisher Théodore Vibert, and grandson of the influential rose-breeder Jean-Pierre Vibert. He began his artistic training at a young…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Stani Nitkowski’s Untitled, with Footnotes
Stani Nitkowski (La Pouëze, 29 May 1949 – id., 2 April 2001) was a French painter. Born to a father of Polish origin, he arrived in Anjou to work in the slate quarries. Stani Nitkowski found himself, at 23, in a wheelchair due to myopathy. Quickly abandon abstraction and start drawing in ink. He exhibited for…
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, the Edwardian period, with footnotes
British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century lasted during the reign of King Edward VII (1901–10). The Pan-imperial, international, and transatlantic character of British art in that complex period, considered the impact of new technologies—such as electrification, the motor car, recorded sound, and cinema—on painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. It’s emphasis…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Margaret Gillies’ Sorrow and Consolation, with Footnotes
Sold for GBP 2,750 in Nov 2010 In the 1820s Margaret Gillies (1803-1887), was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, a Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career Gillies made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions, that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced…
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01 Painting, The Streets of Paris, Pablo Picasso’s Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), with footnotes #95
Sold for 1,270,000 USD in May 2023 The nightlife of Paris proved to be a revelation to Picasso. His large oil Le Moulin de la Galette, now in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, conveyed the dynamism and energy he found in the cafés and concert halls of Montmartre as well as the dark…
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01 Work, Merry Christmas to all, Per Breiehagen’ The Reluctant Reindeer, with Footnotes
Merry Christmas Wishes for the festive season! Christmas is a season of joy, love, and togetherness, making it the perfect time to spread festive cheer with thoughtful wishes… and prayers for the people of Gaza! They need at least that… Per Breiehagen: “I grew up in Ål, a small mountain town in southern Norway, surrounded…
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01 Work, Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Triptych of Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, with Footnotes
This print shows a mythical episode in which the emperor’s official, Mitsukuni, comes to search for surviving insurrectionary conspirators. In the image, the princess recites a spell written on a handscroll, summoning a giant skeleton. It rears out of a black void, crashing its way through the tattered palace blinds with its bony fingers to…
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