Tag: Artists
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Aldridge’s Grand Canal, Early Morning, with footnotes. #127
Sold for £3,812.50 in May 2020 John Aldridge was educated at Uppingham School and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. From 1928 to 1933 he lived in London, making frequent visits to Holland, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. In 1933 he moved to Essex, settling in Great Barfield. At the time he was one of a…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lee Price’s Striped Sheets, with Footnotes. #141
These odd perspective creates an illusion or feeling of an out of body experience as if the subject is looking down at herself… Please follow link for full post
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02 paintings, The amorous game, Hayv Kahraman’s Persian Couple 1 & 2, with Footnotes #96
Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist born in 1981. At the age of 11, her family left Baghdad during the Gulf War and settled in Sweden for several years, where her status of refugee became a catalytic experience for her artistic practic… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s Portrait of the Fluminense – With Footnotes, #369
Sold for $2,400 USD in Feb 2020 Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the “Audubon of Steam Vessels”. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Paul-Émile Bécat’s Reclining nude with an attendant, with footnotes #231
Sold for US$15,075 in July 2020 Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from…
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15 Works, Today, February 16th. is artist Théodore Jacques Ralli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #047
Théodore Jacques Ralli was a Greek painter, watercolourist and draughtsman, who spent most of his working life in France and Egypt… Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, Streets of Paris, François Gall’s Montmartre, At the Cafe, with footnotes, Part 96
Montmartre is primarily known for its artistic history, for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur on its summit, and as a nightclub district…. Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Henry Guillaume Schlesinger’s A harem interior, with footnotes, #99
Sold for £44,400 in Jun 2022 This group of eleven women form an arc which draws the viewer into the centre of the composition and concentrates the eye on the man and his costume. No detail is spared – a parrot can be seen playing with a woman whose hair is adorned with fresh roses…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzales’ A Secret Love, with Footnotes #96
Sold for USD 38,400 in Oct 2005 In the present work, Palmaroli, inspired by the anceint world, depicts two classical figures. He possessed a great sensitivity to rendering the human figure and has carefully considered the way the drapery of their togas fall on the body of the man and woman. More on this paintingVicente Palmaroli González (5…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Randall Bratby’s Venice Canal, with footnotes, #126
Sold for £2,040 in May 2020 John Randall Bratby (1928-1992), studied at the Royal College of Art (1951-54), and it was for his generation of RCA students that David Sylvester coined the phrase ‘Kitchen Sink’, to describe the realism of their art. In 1956 he was included in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Muhanna Durra’s Untitled, with Footnotes, #70
Estimate for $4,000-$8,000 in June 2023 Muhanna Al-Dura was born in 1938, in Amman, Jordan, to a Lebanese mother and a Turkish father, He is a Jordanian Painter and a diplomat. He was one of the first painters to introduce abstract art, mainly cubism, into the Jordanian art scene. Still a schoolboy, Durra was trained…
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), mistress of Charles II of England, with Footnotes. #138
Nell Gwyn was an actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism…. Please follow link for full post
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #229
Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher of Ukrainian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Born in Odes’ka Oblast, Ukraine, he emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1908… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, The amorous game, Fifteen artists imbedded with Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, with Footnotes #101
Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Hero and Leander, Eloise and Abelard or Romeo and Juliet… Please follow link for full post
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Moses Soyer’s Ballet Class, with Footnotes. #133
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 — September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, José Navarro y Llorens’ Boulevard de Paris, with footnotes, Part 95
Estimate value €6,000-€7,000 in June 2023 The boulevards form an important part of the urban and social identity of Paris . They were built on the initiative of the central power, on the site of successive concentric fortifications of the city when these became obsolete. José Navarro y Llorens (1867–1923) was a Spanish painter, active in Valencia noted for his…
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01 Painting, The Artist’s Studio, Jean Georges Vibert’s A Break in the Studio, with footnotes
Estimate at 20,000 – 30,000 USD in May 2023Jehan Georges Vibert or Jean Georges Vibert (30 September 1840 – 28 July 1902) was a French academic painter. He was born in Paris, the son of engraver and publisher Théodore Vibert, and grandson of the influential rose-breeder Jean-Pierre Vibert. He began his artistic training at a young…
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13 Works, January 24th. is artist Vasily Ivanovich Surikov’s day, his story, illustrated #24
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (24 January 1848–19 March 1916) was a Russian Realist history painter. He was born to an old Cossack family, descending from Don Cossacks that had settled in Siberia… Please follow link for full post
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04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Charles Cobelle’s Montmarte, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, with footnotes, Part 94
Paris has been one of the world’s major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the arts and sciences and its early adaptation of extensive street lighting, it became known as the City of Light in the 19th century… Please follow link for full post
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07 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, François d’Aubigné, the secret wife of Louis XIV, with Footnotes. #136
Françoise d’Aubigné, known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon was the last great female presence in the life of Louis XIV… Please follow link for full post