Tag: Artists
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Gyula Tornai’s Japán Masszirozónő (The Blind Masseuse), with Footnotes #196
Estimated at USD 70,000 – USD 90,000 in Apr 2022 The goze stands fully frontal, holding her staff in one hand and a blue enameled teapot in the other, her shamisen slung across her back. Her clothing, though not richly embroidered nor of expensive cloth, is patterned and her hair is wrapped in a pastel patterned scarf. She…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philippe Mercier’s Portrait of Lady Mary Watson Wentworth, with Footnotes #195
Sold for £4,462.50 on April 2022 Mary Watson-Wentworth, Marchioness of Rockingham (née Liddell, later Bright; 1735 – 19 December 1804) was the wife of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was prime minister of Great Britain in 1782 and again from 1765 to 1766. Born c. 1735 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, she was the only…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hugh Goldwin Riviere’s Garden of Eden, with Footnotes #97
The Garden of Eden depicts a young couple walking through Kensington Gardens by Lancaster Gate on a rainy day. It is a touching scene of two otherwise insignificant people made significant by the love they bear each other. Their fixed gazes show the depth of their affection that converts, for them, the dreariness of the chilly…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s Veiled Somali Woman , with Footnotes #194
Sold on Apr 13, 2022 for $656.25Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Between them, Beckwith and Fisher have published 14 books, and have had their photos appear in…
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17 Works, Sun Bathers and Summer break, with footnotes
Explore Nature And Have An Adventure. Summer is a time when nature is bursting at the seams. Take a trip to the lake or beach. Dive into the water–there is so much to learn and so much to discover together… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Hugo Ballin’s Two women in a meadow, with footnotes # 182
Estimate at $700 – $900. Sold for $450.00 on October 2020 Hugo Ballin NA (March 7, 1879 – November 27, 1956) was an American artist, muralist, author and film director. Ballin was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design.Ballin was born in New York City and studied at…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant’s At Rest, with footnotes #108
Estimate at GBP 500 – GBP 1,000 in June 2023 Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits. He was born in Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. A journey to Morocco in…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jehangir Sabavala’s Sorcerer – II, with Footnotes. #192
Sold for Rs 1,51,525 | $2,048 in March 2022Jehangir Sabavala (23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011). He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai’s Sir J. J. School of Art in 1944. Thereafter he went to Europe and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, (1945–47),…
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01 painting, Willem Van Mieris the Elder’s A trumpeter at a casement window, with Footnotes #96
Sold for £390,900 in December 2022 Willem van Mieris (3 June 1662 – 26 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter.…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Frigate of the Rais Hamid chased by these ships of the Americans, with Footnotes #75
The Arabic inscription at bottom of the painting identifies the scene as the Battle of Cape Gata– a devastating blow to the Barbary forces by the American navy in the year 1815. At the center, the Algerian ship Mashudu is identifiable by its bright red flag at the stern. Nine American ships have surrounded the…
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3 Paintings, Richard Redgrave’s The Outcasts, with footnotes The Outcast
In an age when sexual innocence was highly valued and sex for a respectable woman was deemed appropriate only within marriage, the loss of chastity for an unwed woman had multiple repercussions… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Simple- T’s Untitled, with Footnotes #191
Selling for C$634 as of June, 2023 Simple- T is an International award-winning Fine Art Photographer based in Nürnberg, Germany. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she started Fine Art Photography in 2010 and has already been recognized internationally, being featured in numerous media worldwide. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Barcelona, London,…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Markus Feiler’s CLOSER | DISTANCE, with footnotes #181
“With their special appeal, the black and white photos reinforce the magical game of closeness and distance, which at the same time allow room for individual interpretations of the moment… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Antoine Bouvard’s Villa on Venice Canal, with footnotes #111
Antoine Bouvard, St. Jean-de-Bournay, 1870 – 1956 was a French landscape artist who notably often painted under the pseudonym Marc Aldine. Bouvard remains best known for his renderings of Venetian canal scenes, painted in warm tones and a hazy light that often accompanies the setting of the sun. A typical work is A Gondolier Before a…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Miroslava Zaharieva’s Body III, with footnotes # 179
Offered for sale at C$1,993 in May 2023Miroslava Zaharieva is an academic and self-expression artist. She works in various styles: still life, landscape, portrait, figural and non-figural compositions using watercolours, oil, tempera and acrylic colours. Traditional techniques of painting and experimentation by mixing different techniques together. Collage works with various materials: paper, textile, leather and synthetics.…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin’s Old Falconer, Sheik of the Ziban, with footnotes #107
Sol for 100,800 USD on January 2022 Si Bouaziz-Ben-Ganah comes from a line of sheikhs el Arab , from the beylik of Constantine, since 1762. He was born in 1879 and died on June 17, 1945. It was Bachagha of the Zibans (region of oases at the gateway to the desert between the mountains of Zab and…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Joaquín Miró’s Arab Riders, with footnotes #106
Sold for USD 9,600 in April 2006 Joaquín Miró (Spanish, 1849–1914) was a painter of figures, nudes, interior scenes, urban and rural landscapes and still lives. Miro studied at the School of Fine Art in Barcelona before travelling to Paris. At this stage Miro associated with the Montmartre artists. He was a friend of Théophile Steinlen and…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with footnotes, Part 84
Estimated for GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000 on Dec 2022 The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Mela Muter’s Motherhood, with Footnotes #191
Was sold for 1,050,000 PLN on March 2022 The theme of motherhood returned to the painter’s work many times. Her career begins with the author’s Breton episode and the composition “Sad Country” (1906). More than once, Muter emphasized the miserable expression of their existence in the images of mothers and children. Regardless, she often displayed tenderness between…
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12 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nuri Iyem’s three graces, with Footnotes #74
“The trio portraits are a theme meticulously guarded and cherished by Iyem within his oeuvre. The three graces of mythology who transform the judgement of Paris to the screams of Troy roam through the paintings of Botticelli and Rubens to reach the modern day while for Iyem, these female portraits also represent the wholesomeness of…
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