Tag: artist
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01 Marine Art, Feliks Wygrzywalski’s Girl Waiting for a Fisherman , With Footnotes, #312
Sold for PLN 48,000 in October 2021 Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (20 November 1875, Przemyśl – 5 September 1944, Rzeszów) was a Polish painter; remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. Thanks to a scholarship from the Malinowski Foundation, he was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts…
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05 Marine Paintings, Henryk Epstein’s Port in Erbalunga, Cap Corse on Corsica, With Footnotes #311
Erbalunga or Erbalonga is an ancient fishing village on Cap Corse, in the municipality of Brando in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. The village of Erbalonga is the most northerly coastal settlement of Cap Corse, with vertiginous roads and sloping maquis beyond… Please follow link for full post
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09 Paintings, Marine Art, On this date in 1620, English colonists aboard the Mayflower set sail for America, with Footnotes #310
Mayflower was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Art, The Battle of the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack (Virginia), With Footnotes #310
Julian Oliver Davidson (December 27, 1853–April 30, 1894) was a 19th-century American marine artist and illustrator from Nyack, New York. He best known works of the famous naval battles of the American Civil War. Davidson’s works were exhibited at the Hudson River Museum, New-York Historical Society and the National Academy of Design in the 1870s and…
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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 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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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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01 Marine Painting, Jules Achille Noël’s Elegant figures on the beach, Tréport, with Footnotes #285
Estimated for £6,000 – £8,000 in June 2020 Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe. The mouth of the Bresle river meets the English Channel here,…
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01 Marine Painting, Ester Almqvist’s Gothenburg Harbour with Boats in the Ice, With Footnotes #384
The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic countries. The port is situated on both sides of the estuary of Göta älv in Gothenburg. The north shore, Norra Älvstranden, is on Hisingen island and the south shore, Södra Älvstranden, is on the mainland. It is a combined river and coastal port. More…
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01 Marine Painting – Vasilios Chatzis’ Byzantine naval battle, with Footnotes #386
Sold for £6,312.50 in May 2020 “Two years ago, Vassilios Hatzis undertook to bring back to life an entire historical era, and since then has been engaged in the depiction of the Byzantine fleet. Since there are no previous studies in this field to assist him in his work, his historical research has been, and…
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01 Marine Painting – Johan Tirén’s Return of the Fishermen, with Footnotes #385
Sold for 5,300 USD in June 2020 Johan Tirén (12 October 1853, Själevad – 24 August 1911, Länna Parish, Uppland) was a Swedish painter who specialized in scenes of the rural life in Northern Sweden.He originally attended the Tekniska skolan in Stockholm then spent the years 1877 to 1880 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts,…
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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 MARINE PAINTING – NEWELL CONVERS WYETH’S THE RAFT OF ODYSSEUS, WITH FOOTNOTES #381
Sold for USD 425,000 in May 2016 A vivid jewel tone palette covers much of the canvas, with striking turquoises, emeralds and violets applied in brushwork that suggests movement in both the intense swelling of the sea and storm clouds swarming above. The ominous dark clouds are a stark contrast to the white foam of the wave…
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01 Marine Painting – Raoul Dufy’s THE PIER IN LE HAVRE, with Footnotes #379
Sold for 200,000 EUR in June 2020 In 1885, the Florentine father named Guéroult installed the Bains de la Falaise on the current site of the regatta palace. The establishment was very popular with residents. They took advantage of beach huts, canvas tents and the pier that allowed high tide to reach the sea without…
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01 Marine Painting – Willem Hendrik Eickelberg’s BUSY FISHERFOLK, with Footnotes #380
Estimated for 6,000 – 8,000 USD in October 2020 Willem Hendrik Eickelberg was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1845. Although he never obtained the recognition he deserved from a larger public, we know a lot of works from his hand have survived the years. He recieved his education at the Royal Academy of Arts in Amsterdam,…
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04 Marine Photographs – Kasia Derwinska’s Neighborhood, House with the ocean view, Summer shelter and Now or never, with Footnotes #377
Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’ Le pauvre pêcheur/ The Poor Fisherman, with Footnotes #376
The Poor Fisherman was the first of Puvis de Chavannes’ paintings to be bought by the State. But the work sparked a lively reaction at the Salon of 1881 and was not bought until 1887 when it was again shown to the public. It took six years for a national museum to dare to show…
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