Tag: Artists
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04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Jurij Frey’s Cafe, Paris, with footnotes, Part 89
Parisian cafés are a type of café found mainly in Paris, where they can serve as a meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and a place to relax or to refuel for Parisian citizens… Please follow link for full post
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20 Works, November 17th. is Pierre Mignard’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #236
Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called “Mignard le Romain” to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; William James Müller’s Mandraki harbour, and the Slave market, with footnotes, #103
William James Müller visited Athens, extending his travels to Egypt, and in the sketches executed during this period and the paintings produced from them his power and individuality are apparent. Shortly after his return he left Bristol and settled in London, where he exhibited regularly… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, November 7th. is Paul Baudry’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #231
In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of Correggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the Salon of 1857… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Peder Mønsted’s Washerwomen at Bordighera, with Footnotes. #154
Bordighera is a town and comune in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy), located 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the land border between Italy and France. Having the “Capo Sant’Ampelio” which protrudes into the sea, it is the southernmost commune of the region. The cape is at around the same latitude as Pisa and features a little church…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Portrait of Roxelana (Haseki Hurrem Sultan), with Footnotes #150
Known in the West as Roxelana, this painting depicts one of the most famous women of the Ottoman empire. Originally from what is now western Ukraine she was sold at an early age… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Omar El-Nagdi’s Untitled (Surat Yasin), with Footnotes #73
Estimate for 60,000 – 80,000 GBP in Oct 2025 Nagdi’s works can be found in the United States’ Congress Library, Washington DC; the Museum of Modern Art, Venice; the National Library, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Cairo; the Museum of Fine Art, Alexandria; and the Museum of Modern Art, South Korea. He has exhibited…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Jamil Molaeb’s Jerusalem, with Footnotes, #63
Estimated for $7,000 USD – $10,000 USD in May 2025 Jamil Molaeb (1948) was born in Baissour, Lebanon. He started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University. In 1967, 18 years old Jamil Molaeb won the 3rd…
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01 Photograph, Albert Watson’s Linda at The 75th season for the Yankees, with Footnotes
The 1977 New York Yankees season was the 75th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 100–62 and won the World Series. The series victory was the 21st title in franchise history and the first under the ownership of George Steinbrenner. New York was managed by Billy Martin and played at…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Makart’s Karoline Gomperz, with Footnotes. #153
Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, (1 June 1845, in Pest – 13 December 1925, in Vienna) was a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna. Her younger brother was Anton Bettelheim. She was born at Pest (Budapest), Hungary. She studied pianoforte with Karl Goldmark, and singing with Moritz Laufer. At the age of 14, she…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a young woman, with Footnotes. #152
Makart was one of the premier portraitists of his time, with a clientele consisting of members of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. He developed a specific style of female portrait, showing the sitter in full length, painted loosely in a sketch-like manner in a restrained colour palette. Some, however, criticised his work for its superficial treatment…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Florence Henri’s Line Viala, #245
Sold for USD 5,040 in Apr 2022 Line Viala, real name Hélène Stiévenard , is a French singer and actress born on 30 August 1910 in Choisy-le-Roi( Seine ) and died on 26 March 1998 in Saint-Cloud ( Hauts-de-Seine ). Line Viala was a famous French actress and accordionist in the guinguette style of the 1930s. She…
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Edmund Teske’s Nudes, with footnotes # 103
Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and musice… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman’s Female Nude on the Ladder, #243
Sold for for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022 The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog’s nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It’s hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure.…
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05 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; Edouard Verschaffelt’s Women in an interior in Algeria, with footnotes, #102
A student at the academies of Ghent and Antwerp, Verschaffelt left Flanders with his wife in 1919 to forget the darkness of the war years. His wife died shortly after they settled in… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works of the Canals of Venice, by Edmund Dulac after Alfred de Musset poem, with footnotes. #132
This watercolour is the first of a series of four drawings used to illustrate the poem Venise by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857). Dulac’s illustrations were deemed to be the ideal accompaniment to de Musset’s poem… Please follow link for full post
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Terence Patrick O’Neill’s Audrey Hepburn in Pool, with Footnotes. #152
Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Two for the Road’, 1966, where Joanna and her architect husband, Mark Wallace have been married for a decade, and their relationship’s become very rocky… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sidney Maure’s Marilyn Monroe (Died on this day in 1962), with Footnotes. #144
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution. In 1999, the American…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists,Abdelbassit Ben Dahman’s Le Faucon/ the Falcon, with Footnotes #70
Abdelbassit Ben Dahman is a Moroccan visual artist born in 1949 in Tangier and died in 2018. Figurative art and realism define his style of painting… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Le Pho’s Idylle (Idyll), with Footnotes #101
Sold for HKD 2,000,000 in Nov 2017 Idylle is the term used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing. Examples of the…
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