Tag: Artists
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Max’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 190
Sold for $1,300 USD in January 2022 Peter Max is a German artist known for his unique brand of rainbow-hued prints and paintings, which he has created since the early 1960s. Employing painterly strokes, his illustrations incorporate a wide spectrum of colors and patterns as seen in his Umbrella Man series. “I’m just wowed by the…
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5 Works Welcoming Summer by Lena Kramarić, Mr STRANGE Jean-Marie GITARD, Kezban Arca Batibeki, Caroline Walker and Caroline Walker, with footnotes
Summer begins with the solstice on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 marking the astronomical first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Is it really the longest day of the year? Welcome the solstice with some interesting Art… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Alberto Prosdocimi’s Venice, with footnotes #114
Sold for $8,125 USD in January 2020 Many domestic and international trains discharge passengers at the Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia, an incongruously modern but efficient railway station in the historic center, next to the causeway that leads to the mainland. As they leave the station’s main entrance, they head toward the floating waterbus platforms. Buy a…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Eugène Fromentin’s The Charge, with footnotes #109
Estimate at 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in March 2022Fromentin made his first visit to Algeria secretly, in 1846, to attend a wedding. Returning twice to North Africa, he built a successful career as an Orientalist painter and was a frequent contributor to the Paris Salon. The vivid drama of The Charge is characteristic of Fromentin’s later…
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26 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes #8
Sold for 81,250 GBP in Dec 2016 The girl in the present work wears an ornate Ottoman gold coin headdress with a fringe of star-shaped amulets, and a matching necklace. With her white diaphanous veil and dress, and hair braided into a bun, she is dressed for a special occasion or celebration, possibly her own…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Miles Aldridge’s Better Than Life and Thought after Filthy Thought, with footnotes # 189
Miles Aldridge’s uncanny, saturated portraits riff on cinematic glamour and erotic tropes. Throughout his work, Aldridge draws on a range of influences, from filmmakers such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini to photographer Richard Avedon and movements including Pop art and psychedelia… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis Cotes’ Portrait of the Duchess of Marlborough, with Footnotes #199
Sold for 15,120 GBP in April 2022 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain. By the time Anne became…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft’s Untitled (La Guitariste/Knowing to Perform), with Footnotes #61
Estimate for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in October 2022Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft was born in Jerusalem in 1947, later lived and grew up in Haifa and Nazareth where she now resides; married with four children. The artist started drawing and painting as a hobby in her childhood. Fourteen years after her marriage, she joined the school of arts…
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14 Works, June 18th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #166
Peter Nicolai Arbo (18 June 1831–14 October 1892) was a Norwegian historical painter, who specialized in portraits and allegorical scenes from Norwegian history and the Norse mythology. He is most noted for The Wild Hunt of Odin (See below), a dramatic motif based on the Wild Hunt legend and Valkyrie, which depicts a female figure…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Odd Nerdrum’s Daddy’s Girl, With Footnotes #80
In this 2014 oil painting Nerdrum returns to the beautiful nude couple of Summer Nights (see below). But now they are aged and decrepit, the woman lay dying across the lap of her grieving partner. Yet at their feet the infant still sleeps… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Jack Welpott’s Janet in Her Room, with footnotes # 187
A nude woman wears a mask as she looks out the window. Next to her is a print of Gustav Klimt’s “Judith and the Head of Holofernes”. Jack Welpott (1923–2007) was an American photographer born in Kansas City, grew up in southern Indiana. and was educated at primary and secondary schools in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Pieter Breughel the Younger’s Marriage Procession, With Footnotes #81
Flemish wedding processions, as depicted here, publically announced the union of two families before the private, religious ceremony was held at a church. The bride wears her hair down and uncovered except for the wedding headpiece. The groom, wearing a wedding crown atop his bright red cap, is followed by two men, probably the fathers…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Mary Villiers as Saint Agnes, with Footnotes #198
Sold for £5,100 in April 2022 The original painting (in the Royal Collection, Windsor) was presumably painted for Charles I, who gave the sitter away at her wedding to the Duke of Lennox in 1637. It has been remarked that she looks older than 15, the age she would have been in the year of her…
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04 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcel Gromaire’s Femme nue, with footnotes # 186
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892–11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Warren Brandt’s Relaxing Nude, with footnotes # 185
Sold for $687.50 in January 2020 “Working in the tradition of Henri Matisse, Brandt has adopted beauty and realism as his concerns. Brandt has managed to bridge the gap between the masters of the Western tradition, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Bonnard, Max Beckmann and Willem de Kooning.” Warren Brandt (1918-2002) studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at…
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27 Paintings from Émile Henri Bernard’s ten year stay in Egypt, with footnotes
Bernard left France in 1893 and had lived abroad for ten years before returning to his native country. Intrigued by Orientalist works of the previous generations artists — Ingres, Delacroix, and others — he sought to create his own works depicting similarly scenes and characters… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph of the Canals of Venice, St. Mark’s Domes with Venice Background, with footnotes #112
Offered for sale for C$14,500 in June 2023 St Mark’s Basilica is the cathedral church of the Catholic Patriarchate of Venice. Its model was the sixth-century Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, although accommodations were made to adapt the design to the limitations of the physical site and to meet the specific needs of Venetian…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, with Footnotes #197
Estimate at 5,000—8,000 USD in July 2022 Renowned for his carefully composed, cinematic photographs, Helmut Newton was one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. He fundamentally changed the nature of fashion photography through his edgy approach to subject matter, and strong formal intuition. Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Oscar VanYoung’s Hot Summer Day, with footnotes # 183
Sold for $1,200.00 in January 2020Oscar Van Young was born in Vienna on 15 April 1906. For business reasons his father found himself in Russia at the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, and was followed there by his family. Oscar spent some of his teenage years in Odessa, Russia during the civil war that…
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01 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Hosni Radwan’s City of Paradoxes 6, with Footnotes #76
The city of Jerusalem is the focus of Hosni Radwan’s latest series of artworks. Using charcoal, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas, he attempts to express his fascination with a city haunted by shades of paradoxes. The minute Radwan saw Jerusalem, after living in the diaspora most of his life, he fell in love with it.…
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