Tag: Artists
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris,Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s A flower seller on les grands boulevards, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimate at 60,000 – 80,000 USD in June 2023 Filled with concert venues, theatres, cafés and restaurants, the Grands Boulevards area has long been popular with Parisians as a place of enjoyment and relaxation. There are many treasures to be uncovered: grand architecture, places steeped in history, covered passages that have retained their old-world charm,…
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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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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chant Avedissian’s Leyla Fawzy, with Footnotes. #186
Sold for GBP 6,300 in Nov 2022 Laila Fawzi (E1923 – January 12, 2005) was an Egyptian actress and model. She was one of the pioneers of Egyptian cinema and starred in over 85 films throughout her career. In 1940, she was crowned Miss Egypt. Fawzi was born in Turkey to Egyptian parents. Her father owned fabric stores…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Terrick Williams’ Moonlight, Venice, with footnotes #130
Estimated for 18 000 – 20 600 USD in May 2020 John Terrick Williams RA (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936). Williams was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London. Determination to become an artist he move to Europe and studied under Charles Verlat in Antwerp…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone’s Martyrdom of Saint Catherine – with footnotes #205
Sold for €10,000 EUR in November 2023 Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artist; Jose Cruz Herrera’s Young Oriental lady with a necklace, with footnotes, #100
Estimate for 6,000 – 8,000 EUR in June 2017 José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August 1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca. His talent was soon apparent…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Inji Efflatoun’s Mabrouka (She who is Blessed), with Footnotes #70
Estimated for £30,000 – £50,000 in May 2025 Painted in 1953, in the immediate aftermath of Egypt’s revolution, Mabrouka stands among Inji Efflatoun’s most powerful early works: a poignant portrayal of maternal hardship and quiet resistance, rendered in her deeply empathetic figurative style. The title, Mabrouka, holds dual meaning, it may refer to the name…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hans Makart’s Richard III Courting Lady Anne, with Footnotes, #99
Estimated at 15,000 – 20,000 GBP in December 2022Richard of Gloucester, the brother of King Edward IV, is determined to gain the crown of England for himself, no matter what. His plot begins as he romantically pursues Lady Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick and a widow. He woos her as she accompanies the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s Pharaoh’s Daughter, with Footnotes, #184
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in July 2016 Pharaoh’s Daughter appears to depict the un-named heroine of Exodus who discovered the infant Moses among the bulrushes when she was fetching water from the Nile. It was a popular subject in the nineteenth century and the most famous depiction of her was painted by Lawrence…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Simon de Vos’ An interior scene, with Footnotes, #98
Sold for 16,380 GBP in December 2022 The scene is a delight for the ears as well as the eyes, as it features remarkably lively depictions of musicians playing bagpipes, fiddles, traverso flutes, clavichords, theorbos, not to mention a pair of singers at the front right. In this particular gathering the delights of music are joined by…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Titian’s portrait of Roxelana (Haseki Hurrem Sultan, with Footnotes #150
Estimated for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in October 2022Known 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 in the slave markets of Constantinople and entered the harem of Sultan Süleyman I (‘The…
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11 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Wenda Parkinson, Model, Traveler and Author, with Footnotes. #148
Wenda Rogerson was born in 1923. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in her teens. In 1946, she was appearing in a play at The Arts Theatre Club when she was spotted by photographer Cecil Beaton… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Jean Veber’s Dynamis, with footnotes #237
Dynamis is one of Veber’s most striking works: Industry, embodied by a demonic woman, takes visible pleasure in crushing the workers who serve her… Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Vasily Dmitrievich Poleno’s The Herzegovian on lookout, with Footnotes #147
Sold for $300,000 USD in Nov 2019 In 1876, Serbia and Montenegro, joined by Bosnian and Herzegovinian rebels, declared war on Turkey. These events produced a stormy response in Russian society when many Russian cultural and scientific persons of note expressed strong public support for the Balkan people. Among them were the writers Vsevolod Garshin,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Oxer’ s The Book Of Ravishment, with Footnotes. #146
Ravished is a touching and often funny Beauty and the Beast story set in Regency England. It is many reader’s favorite Amanda Quick novel. William Joseph Oxer B.A. Hons. (Wrwk) F. R.S.A. is a passionate artist driven by traditional ideas of how beauty should be represented, William formed the intellectual basis to his work under the tutelage…
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3 Paintings by Pol Mara; Caryatides, Gun and The Poet, with footnotes
Pol Mara (Antwerp 1920-1998) was a major guru of the new guration and Belgian Pop Art. In the 1950s, after a figurative start with surrealist connotations, Pol Mara became a widely acclaimed abstract artist… 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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05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Abraham Soloman Baylinson’s Seated Nude and Reclining Woman, #239
Abraham Solomon Baylinson (6 January 1882 – May 1950) was a Russian-American painter who was active in the early modernist movement. He was secretary for the Society of Independent Artists from 1918 to 1934, and showed his work at the Society’s shows from his joining in 1917 until 1942… Please follow link for full post
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18 Works, Today, April 1st is artist Anton Stefanov Mitov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #90
Anton Stefanov Mitov (1 April 1862, in Stara Zagora — 20 August 1930, in Sofia) was a Bulgarian painter, art critic, art historian, social activist and corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, Today, March 27th. is artist Per Aass Deberitz’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #85
Per Aass Deberitz (also Peder Deberitz, 27 March 1880–14 October 1945) was a Norwegian painter. He was regarded as a neo-impressionist and was also a pupil of Henri Matisse during the years of his stay in Paris from 1909 to 1910…. Please follow link for full post
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