Tag: Artists
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04 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, CHARLES CAMOIN’S FEMME NUE, with footnotes # 178
Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau’s class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Adriano Cecchi’s A North African Woman, with Footnotes #190
Sold for 6,930 GBP in March 2022 Adriano Cecchi was an Italian artist with an affinity for coquettish, rococo portraits and historical scenes of the 18th-century. He also produced an array of paintings depicting figures in the traditional folk dress of Italy. Both styles of painting were popular in the 19th-century and Cecchi was able to execute…
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Marià Fortuny’s Odalisque, with footnotes # 54
An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. An odalık was not a concubine of the harem, but a maid, although it was possible that she could become one. An odalık was ranked at the bottom of the…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Christoph Gertner’s Mercenary Love, with Footnotes #95
Sold for EUR 46,080.- in November 2022 The subject of matchmaking is a recurrent theme in North European painting. In the present painting the notion of a transaction is implicit and the painting appears to be an allegory of mercenary love. On the table are coins and wine which are emblematic of vice. Christoph Gertner was probably…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Marcus Stone’s Sain et Sauf/ Safe and Sound, with Footnotes, #94
Sold for £4,462.50 22 November 2022 The scene depicts the joyful moment when a French soldier returns home from battle to his beloved wife who is in bed after the birth of their child; hence both husband, wife and newborn are “safe and sound”. Whilst he embraces his wife, his daughter points at her new sibling…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Franciszek Zmurko’s Hetaera, with Footnotes #188
A Hetaera was a type of prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and talker aside from providing sexual service. Unlike the rule for ancient Greek women, hetairas would be highly educated and were allowed in the symposium. More on Hetaeras Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv — 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Eugène Galien-Laloue’s Arc de Triomphe, Part 35 – With Footnotes
Estimate at 5,000 – 7,000 USD in October 2021 The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l’Étoile — the étoile or “star” of the juncture formed by its twelve…
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21 Works, Today, May 17th. is Martinus Rørbye’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #135
Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye (17 May 1803–29 August 1848) was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century. Martinus Rørbye was born in Drammen in Norway on 17 May 1803. . He was not…
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2 Paintings by Théodore Géricault of The wounded Cuirassier, with footnotes
Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers, discarding their lances and adopting the use of pistols as their primary weapon. In the later part of the 17th century the cuirassier lost his limb…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Alexandre Marie Guillemin’s Spinning a yarn, with Footnotes #93
This work was Sold for £1,100 on Nov 22, 2022 Alexandre Marie Guillemin was born in 1817 in Paris. He was a student of the prominent French painter Antoine Jean Gros. Guillemin was especially known as genre artist specializing in the themes from the lives of peasants and petit bourgeois from Brittany to Pyrenees, frequently captured in…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Julio Romero de Torres’ La esclava/ The slave, with footnotes # 177
The sitter for the present work was the actress Elena Pardo. A regular performer at the Romea theater in Madrid, Elena was Romero de Torre’s preferred model during the 1920s. Elena’s figure embodied to perfection the archetype that Coco Chanel promoted internationally – a modern woman with a greased bob hairstyle ‘comme les garcons’. The…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Shirin Neshat’s Unveiling, with Footnotes #187
In the present work, the woman stands still, appears silent yet confident and her gaze captivates the viewer. The Farsi words, amalgams of poems and prose by the Iranian writers Forough Farokhzad and Tahereh Saffarzadeh, ornament the woman’s body, but they are not only decorative as they define the woman’s quest for self-expression and reveal…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hafidh Al Droubi’s The Couple, with Footnotes #92
This work sold for GBP 30,240 on3 Nov 2022Hafidh Al Droubi (1914-1991) was an Iraqi painter and draughtsman, noted for his Cubist paintings and for his approach to professionalising Iraqi art education in the early to mid 20th-century. He was a prolific painter, an important artist in the Pioneer generation, a key figure in the development…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Song Jiang’s Venice Charm, with footnotes, #110
Chinese-born Canadian painter Xiao Song Jiang was born in 1955, in Wuhan, China. In 1978 he studied fine arts at the China Academy of Art, formerly the Zhejiang Art Academy, then began lecturing watercolor at the City of Wuhan Construction College. Four years after, Song was selected to further develop his skill at the provincial Hubei Art…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s The Death of Cleopatra, with Footnotes. #186
Once Mark Anthony had been defeated at the battle of Actium (30 B.C.), and fallen on his sword, Cleopatra herself commited suicide to avoid capture by Octavian. An asp, or Egyptian cobra, was smuggled to her in a basket of figs and she died from its bite. According to Egyptian legend, death from snakebite ensured…
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07 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nuri Iyem’s Ordinary Lovers, with Footnotes, #73
Nuri İyem was one of the most important living masters of Turkish painting. He has produced, exhibited, written and discussed art without a break, in spite of all the difficulties to exist as an artist during the social and cultural course of the Republic period… Please follow link for full post
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08 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Vera Rockline’s Nudes asleep, with footnotes # 176
Véra Rockline (1896–4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Rockline started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students… Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Bertin Scott’s The Charge, with footnotes, #105
Georges Bertin Scott (10 June 1873 – 10 January 1943) was a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L’Illustration during the early 20th century. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He produced paintings of the Balkan Wars and the First World War,…
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08 Works, Bathers at Summer break by Works by Fernando Amorsolo, William Etty, Arthur Brusenbauch, Louis-Joseph Courtat, Eser Afacan, Gaetano de Martini and Émilie Möri with footnotes
Émilie Möri is a Franco-Swiss photographer, born in 1978. She grew up in a family of printers. His experience in the field of screen printing reveals his passion for colors, image composition, artistic expression. A graduate of Les Gobelins Paris, Émilie is an artistic director . Alongside her creations for advertising agencies, publishing houses, major brands…
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01 Paintings Middle East Artists, Arghavan Khosravi’s White Flag, with Footnotes #72
This painting by Arghavan Khosravi depicts a woman rising over the top of a mosque. The woman’s eyes are closed and her lips are sewn shut. On one end, the thread binding her mouth also runs through her ears, is tied to the architecture of the mosque, and then is tied to a skeleton key.…
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