Tag: Artists
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01 Work, The Art of War, Piero della Francesca’s Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes , with footnotes
In representing the Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes, Piero has chosen to represent the grim mechanics of the slaughter: there are no beautiful patterns, no lovely light, and the armour has little allure. The legs of horses and people fill the lower part of the composition, while above masses of steel and flesh collide. There…
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Grosz’s Eclipse of the Sun, 1926, with footnotes
Eclipse of the Sun is a masterpiece of political art. As signaled by the dollar sign darkening the sun, a symbol of life, the artwork critiques the greed and violence of the military, politicians, and industrialists. The tilted perspective, dissonant color, and ambiguous sense of space underscore the instability of period following a war. Grosz…
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07 Works, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz’s the War (Krieg) series, with footnotes
In 1919, Käthe Kollwitz began work on Krieg (War), her response to the tragedies endured during what she called those “unspeakably difficult years” of World War I and its aftermath. The portfolio’s seven woodcuts focus on the sorrows of those left behind… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz’s Woman with a dead child, with footnotes
The depicted child is the youngest son Peter Kollwitz (1896-1914) at the age of 7 years. Käthe Kollwitz (born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’ Ottoman horsemen crossing the ford, with footnotes
Estimated for 250000 – 350000 EUR in Dec 2023 Among the standards and crescent and ponytail banners, a squad of horsemen crosses a river ford. The Seraskier (leader of the troop) is helped by two arnauts (Albanian unit), in the water at waist height, while the Arab and Circassian horsemen (helmet topped with a spearhead)…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Guillaume-François Colson’s Napoleon In Alexandria , with footnotes
Bonaparte left Alexandria on 6 July. General Dugua marched on Rosetta, with orders to seize and hold the entrance to the port housing the French fleet, which had to follow the route to Cairo down the river’s left bank and rejoin the army at Rahmanié. On 8 July, Bonaparte arrived at Demenhour, where he found the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson’s The Cairo Revolt, with footnotes
The Cairo Revolt is an episode of the Egyptian campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte . It pits the French against the Egyptians. The revolt takes place on October 21, 1798. This city was taken by the French on 5 Thermidor year VI , and Bonaparte established the seat of the republican government there during the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Claggett Wilson’s Underground Dressing Station, with footnotes
Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), who had fought in France as a combat marine, produced a riveting portfolio of two dozen watercolors based on his wartime experiences. Wilson had trained in Paris at the progressive Académie Julien, exhibited at the Armory Show, and been…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Claggett Wilson’s Symphony of Terror, with footnotes
The more muted palette here does not detract from the power of the explosion. The sickly yellow glow at the centre, at first, disguise the masked faces rising up on the horizon; a choir invisible, bringers of death. More on this painting Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Évariste Vital Luminais’ Fight between Romans and Gauls, with footnotes
The Roman invasion of Gaul was one of the most significant wars in the ancient world. It saw Rome’s empire vastly expand, propelled Julius Caesar to political dominance, and started the process that ended the Roman Republic. It was a hard-fought war between two very different cultures. The most powerful motive behind the invasion was not…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña’s The end of a beautiful day, with footnotes
Estimated for €3,000 EUR(4,393 CAD) in Dec 2023 “The night has come; the moon rises full and bright on the horizon; its light penetrates the middle of the woods and illuminates with its reflections an entire scene. A young woman, her body only half covered with draperies, veils her face with both hands and cries when…
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03 Works, The Art of War, Edward Bird’s The Day after the Battle of Chevy Chase, with footnotes
This image shows in detail the day after a battle. Men and horses lay dead on the field. The artist, Edward Bird, has captured the pallor of death in the skin of the corpses and the horses. The woman in the centre of the painting is overcome with grief and horror… Please follow link for…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Evariste Vital Luminais’s The Bounty of War, with footnotes
Sold for USD 11,250 in Apr 2021 Évariste Vital Luminais was a French painter. He is best known for works depicting early French history and is sometimes called “the painter of the Gauls”. Luminais was born in Nantes into a parliamentary and legal family. His great-grandfather Michel Luminais was an official in the Vendée; his grandfather…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Evariste Vital Luminais’s Captives, with footnotes
In a dramatic scenery, where the sky is darkened by the smoke of a burning and pillaged temple, two Gaul horsemen grab their bounty: young Greek or Roman women, who will become their slaves. Evariste Luminais shows here the full extent of his talent in the historical genre. Passionate about archeology, he is also obsessed…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Before the attack, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville presented two paintings to the 1859 Salon, both portrayals of the Siege of Sebastopol: Assault of 15 June 1855, four o’clock in the morning, and Assaut du 18 Juillet. These paintings were acclaimed by the Salon and, along with his monumental painting Bataille de Magenta [The Battle of Magenta], marked a turning point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Le Cimetière de Saint-Privat, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville, like Edouard Detaille, was one of the main artists to paint episodes from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the theme recurs frequently in his prolific production. At the Salon of 1873, where he exhibited The Last Cartridges, an episode in the fighting around Sedan in September, he was a great success…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Afifa Aleiby’s The Flood (Gulf War), with footnotes
Sold for GBP 12,500 in Oct 2018 ‘I completed this work in 1991, during the Gulf War, and the liberation of Kuwait. I was personally against the occupation of Kuwait and also against the war on Iraq. The Iraqi people who suffered a lot had nothing to do with the aggressive politics of a dictatorial regime, and…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eric L. Pape’s The Last Soldier, with footnotes
Estimate for $2,500 – $3,500 in Dec 2023 Born in San Francisco, California, Eric Pape began his art education at the San Francisco School of Design before studying at the École De Beaux Arts in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pape first exhibited at the Salon in 1890, and then spent two years traveling…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Flemish School’s The Capture of Tunis, 1535, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 325,000 in Dec 2020 The Conquest of Tunis (1535) was a battle of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars that was fought between a Habsburg/Christian alliance (backed by the Hafsid dynasty) and the Ottoman Empire (backed by two French galleys). The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, assembled an invasion force of 60,000 troops and 398 ships…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Circle of Hans Baldung’s An Allegory of Death, with footnotes
Estimate for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in December 2023 This thick panel undoubtedly corresponds to a votive work bearing the arms of the von Metzsch family, Germany (their coats of arms depicted in the lower right corner). The central scene, representing death and a young woman fighting for the survival of the man in the…
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