Tag: Artists
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1 Painting, The art of War, Stanley Spencer’s Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, with footnotes
Spencer was commissioned to create this painting in April 1918 by the British War Memorials Committee. In his owns words Spencer wanted to show ‘God in the bare real things, in a limber wagon, in ravines, in fouling mule lines.’ Of those he depicts he said ‘during these nights the wounded passed through the dressing…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Constant Meyer’s Recognition, with footnotes
Recognition: North and South is a painting of a Union soldier who is dying on the battlefield. The reason it is called Recognition is that there is a Confederate soldier holding him, supposedly his brother who was fighting for the Confederacy during the same battle. This powerful painting captures the sorrow of the Civil War…
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1 Painting, The art of War, Howard Pyle’s The Shell, with footnotes
In his painting The Shell, Howard Pyle depicts the caves dug into a hillside as bomb shelters by families in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the city’s Civil War siege. The great danger of these cave is described in detail in a first-hand account by William W. Lord, Jr. in “A Child at the Siege of Vicksburg,”…
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1 Painting, The art of War, John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, with footnotes
A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an exaggerated posture as…
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02 Paintings, Gottfried Helnwein’s The Disasters of War 3 and Eyes That Knew No Shade of Sin or Fear, with footnotes
Children are the heroes of Helnwein’s Disasters of War series. His emphasis on the child is sincerely rooted in his own deficient childhood, which the artist describes as a gray period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Dean Cornwell’s Wartime Evacuation, with Footnotes
Estimate for $10,000 – $15,000 in Nov 2023 Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. Cornwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles L. Cornwell, was a civil engineer whose drawings of industrial subjects fascinated Cornwell as a child. He began his professional career as a cartoonist…
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY’s Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217
Kiki, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works, October 2h. is Sigrid Hjertén’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #259
Born to a middle-class family in Sundsvall, Sigrid Hjertén lost her mother at a very young age. She studied to be a drawing teacher at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and in 1908 became a tapestry card designer for Giöbels, a decorative arts company… Please follow link for full…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Maurice Brianchon’d c. NU AUX BAS ROUGES, with footnotes #218
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in December 2018 Maurice Brianchon, (1899-1979) French, is known as one of the Painters of Poetic Reality. Brianchon attended É’cole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and moved to Spain shortly after to study the paintings of Spanish Masters. His early work is characterized by dynamic images of the theater, street scenes, and horse races…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Symbiosis, with footnotes #215
Estimated for US$4,000 – US$6,000 in May 2020 Symbiosis, interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Her parents divorced when she was 2 years old…
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04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Orval Hixon’s Ernestine Meyers, with Footnotes #231
The daughter of MLB player Albert “Cod” Myers, Ernestine Myers (1900–91) was born in Terre Haute. She performed acrobatic toe dances, ballet and Creole folk styles in both Keith and Shubert vaudeville, and in the legit she danced with the Ziegfeld Follies and in the extravaganza Sinbad (1918) with Al Jolson… Please follow link for…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, LUCIEN LÉVY-DHURMER’s La bourrasque, with Footnotes #230
Sold for GBP 126,000 in Jul 2022 La bourrasque, which translates as ‘The squall’, formed part of a strikingly ethereal series of portraits based upon the theme of the four seasons. The present work illustrates autumn and became the subject matter of much experimentation during the late 1890s, resulting in a painting under this title being…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fruta Prohibida, with footnotes #212
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adolf Humborg (Austrian, 1847-1913), with Footnotes #88
Sold for USD 5,520 in Oct 1998 Adolf Humborg (January 18, 1847 Oraviţa – April 14, 1921 Munich) was an Austrian painter. Humborg studied at the Art Academy in Vienna between 1867 and 1872. He then completed his studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich, where he attended the class of professor Alexander von Wagner (1838-1904).…
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07 Works, October 17th. is Childe Hassam’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #258
Childe Hassam (1859–1935), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Equally adept at capturing the excitement of modern cities and the charms of country retreats, Hassam became the foremost chronicler of New York City at the turn of the century… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Simon Buret’s The Porous Lights, with Footnotes #87
Sold for 4,445 EUR in February 2023 Simon Buret grew up in Paris, and studied acting at Acting International. His acting career began in 2005, with brief appearances in Les Chevaliers du ciel and Dans tes rêves. At the same time, Simon meets Olivier Coursier with whom he creates the music group AaRON, in which he is…
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04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Today October 16th Is The Anniversary of The Execution of Marie Antoinette, with Footnotes #230
Marie Antoinette’s trial began on 14 October 1793; she was convicted two days later by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed, also by guillotine, at the Place de la Révolution… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Hedy Lamarr in kstase and White Cargo, with footnotes # 23
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), Hedy Lamarr fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Antoon Heinsbergen’s Paris Opera House, with footnotes, Part 92
For sale for 4,500 USD in October 2023 A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies. Opéra, also known as Palais Garnier, formerly Académie Nationale de Musique, Parisian opera house designed by Charles Garnier. The building, considered one of…
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Iranian Artist Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126
“The title gives a great starting insight into what is going on here, but I soon found that it only scratched the surface…” Please follow link for full post
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