Tag: Artists
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15 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Centuries, by the artists of the time, with foot notes #6
By Apollonio Facchinetti, Apollonio Domenichin, Guglielmo Ciardi, Canaletto, Bernardo Canal, Thomas Bush Hardy, Edward William Cooke, Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE, MARC ALDINE and Ludolfs Liberts, … Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s The Maharadja’s entourage, with footnotes #115
Sold for EUR 8,963 in Apr 2004 Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a “great ruler”, “great king” or “high king”. A few ruled states informally called empires. The ‘Title inflation’ soon led to most being rather mediocre or even petty in real power, which led to compound titles being used in an attempt to distinguish some among…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, David Drebin’s Monte Carlo Flasher, and 5 other works with Footnotes #214
Love stories and landscapes are at the foundation of David Drebin’s panoramas, portraits, and neon sculptures. His monograph Love and Other Stories (2007) features solitary women in urban tableaux — high-rise apartments buildings and terraces, freeway overpasses and hotel rooms… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hocine Ziani’s The Queen Tin Hinan, with Footnotes #212
Tin Hinan was a 4th-century Tuareg queen. Her monumental tomb is located in the Sahara, at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. Tin Hinan is sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Hoggar”. The name literally means “woman of the tents”, but may be metaphorically translated as “mother of us all”. According to the stories…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s The Market Woman, with Footnotes #212
Sold for HK$1,011,000 in May 2022 The Market Woman depicts a busy market scene where a group of women are engaged in a flurry of activities. Four women are seen sitting on a pavement, hawking their wares, which in this case appear to be poultry. Another lady in white soon joins in and offers her greeting.…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Gustave Boulanger’s Tribute, with footnotes #114
Sold for 107,100 GBP in March 2022A young emir and his entourage, resting in the shade of the forest – perhaps resting on a journey – receive a passing traveller. The latter, in a crimson outer robe, his horse left untethered behind the great baobab tree, appears to offer the young nobleman a talisman of some kind,…
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13 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, TOM WESSELMANN’s Reclining Stockinged Nudes, with footnotes #197
Unique works from the Stockinged Nude series: 26 hand-painted works, each with different colour combinations of hair, skin and stockings… Please follow link for full post
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Julio Romero De Torres’ muse María Teresa Lopez González, with Footnotes #211
María Teresa Lopez González, born in Argentina, she moved with her family to Julio Romero de Torres’s native Córdoba after World War I. There she first sat for the painter aged just 14 years old, and became the artist’s favourite model… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Kimberly Dow’s Bewitched and Beguiled, with footnotes #196
Kimberly Dow is an American contemporary artist that started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Beraud’s Pont de Bercy, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimated for £80,000 GBP – £120,000 GBP in November 2005 The Pont de Bercy is a bridge over the Seine in Paris. It links the 12th and 13th arrondissement of Paris by extending the Boulevard de Bercy and Boulevard Vincent-Auriol. In addition to the roadway, the bridge also carries Line 6 of the Paris Métro, between…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Canon’s Kitchen piece with maid, with Footnotes #210
A young woman stretches for a wicker basket with turnips, turned her head in three-quarter profile towards the viewer. The flowy dress reveals her muscular body and glowing skin. In front of her in an artful arrangement are fish, game and various vegetables. More on this painting Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HUBLIN Émile Auguste’s Jeune paysanne, with Footnotes #206
Emile-Auguste Hublin was a painter best-known for peasant genre scenes rendered in a Neoclassical style, Emile Auguste Hublin (1830–c. 1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou. In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hovsep Pushman’s Woman in Robe, with Footnotes #204
Sold for $30,000 USD in May 2019 Hovsep Pushman, 1877 – 1966, a naturalized American citizen, was born in Armenia in 1877. At age 11, he held a scholarship at the Constantinople Academy of Art. By 17, he had gone to the United States and started teaching art in Chicago. He studied the culture of China,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Victor Guerrier’s Au café, with Footnotes, #83
Sold for 7 500EUR in Octobre 2017 Victor Guerrier, (French, 1893-1968) was born and trained in Lyon living much of his life at Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or. He began his career as an illustrator but made his name painting Belle Epoque subjects and Parisian life between the wars. Clearly inspired by the work of Impressionist masters…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Raoul Dufy’s Nu à l’orchestre/ Nude in the orchestra, with footnotes #195
Sold for Sold for £37,562.50 in October 2020 Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was french painter and the brother of Jean Dufy. But he was not only a painter, but a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, furniture designer and planner of public spaces. Dufy grew up in a large family from Le Havre in Normandy, France. At…
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12 Works, July 16th. is Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #193
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (July 16, 1806 – July 15 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chen Yifei’s Banquet, with Footnotes #203
Sold for 54,520,000 HKD in April 2022 Banquet is a masterwork from Chen Yifei’s creative peak. It represents Chinese art’s rebirth. This image of musical accompaniment to a banquet embodies the essence of late 20th-century nostalgia and is enveloped in a traditional, elegant Eastern air. Chen Yifei (April 12, 1946 – April 10, 2005) was a renowned…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jamil Molaeb’s Jerusalem, with Footnotes #66
Sold for 9,450 GBP in October 2022 The city of Jerusalem was a subject that Jamil Molaeb returned to over and over. In a succession of almost identical canvases, the artist repeated, with very slight variations of themes and colours, small architectural and figural elements inherent to the city whilst hinting at universal symbols. This work…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Rubens Santoro’s Venetian Canal, with Saint Mark’s Basilica in the Distance, with footnotes #116
Sold for $100,000 in Feb, 2020 The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark’s Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture. It lies at the eastern…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s Jackfruit Seller and ,Fish Vendor, Bali, with Footnotes #202
Garbed in traditional attire and sarongs embellished with floral and batik patterns, the subjects represent their nation… Please follow link for full post
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