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Johnny Popkess was born in London, “I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state – as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of…

Inji Efflatoun, FELOUKAS ON THE NILE 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 23

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A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, in Egypt and Sudan (particularly along the Nile), including Malta and Tunisia, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. The crew consists of two or three people. Despite the availability of motorboats…

Gen Paul, PLACE DU TERTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes

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in Paris

Gen Paul, 1895 – 1975 PLACE DU TERTRE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 31 3/4 in., 64.8 by 80.7 cm Private collection The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Only a few streets away from Montmartre’s Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is near the…

Apollonio Domenichini, Fondamenta Nuove 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #59

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in Venice

The Fondamente Nove or Nuove (New Foundations) form a long series of quays forming the northern limit of the city of Venice and located on the horses of the sestieri of Cannaregio and Castello. Approximately one kilometer long, the Nove Fondamente were made in the XVI th. century after the burial of the lagoon band between the Canale…

Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, LES CHAMELIERS/ THE CAMEL RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 55

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in Orientalists

Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and died the November 23 , 2014 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…

Juarez Machado, Tango 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes

Jul 14, 2019

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in amorous game, The amorous game, The amorous game

Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…

LOUIS VAN DER POL, Paris Bar Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes

Jul 14, 2019

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in Paris

Louis Van Der Pol (Dutch, 1896-1982) was active in the 20th Century and lived in Holland. He was known for his large format elaborate romantic portrait paintings and city street scenes. He traveled to France often to pick up inspiration from the air of the artist scene. This piece is a fine example of his cityscape…

Paul Guiragossian, MÈRE ET ENFANT 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 21

Jul 13, 2019

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Paul Guiragossian (1926 – November 20, 1993) was an Armenian Lebanese painter. Born to Armenian parents, Paul Guiragossian experienced the consequences of exile from a very tender age. Raised in boarding schools, he grew up away from his mother who had to work to make sure her two sons got an education. In the 1950s, Guiragossian started…

Egon Schiele, Two nude women 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 24

Jul 13, 2019

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in Art of the Nude

Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and…

John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #45

Jul 13, 2019

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in Portait of a Lady

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),…

Shakir Hassan Al-Said, LADY WITH THE HAT 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 20

Jul 10, 2019

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Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative and influential artists. Born in Samawa, Al Said lived, worked and died in Bagdad. In 1948 he received a degree in social science from the Higher Institute of Teachers in Baghdad and in 1954 a diploma in painting…

Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Untitled 9 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 37

Jul 9, 2019

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‘It’s about looking at a space – how one relates to a space and how that space defines a person too,’ says Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist, photographer and academic, Tarek al Ghoussain. Long considered amongst the most progressive and engaged photographers at work in the Middle East today, al Ghossein’s intellectually-engaged and visually powerful imagery addresses the duality…

Inji Aflatoun, L’OR BLANC (WHITE GOLD) 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 35

Jul 8, 2019

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The current work – “L’or Blanc,” which translates to White Gold is a unique phrase coined by the Egyptian fellah (peasant) to cotton. As it was the most common commodity traded on the Egyptian stock market. More on this painting Inji Aflatoun (16 April 1924 – 17 April 1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the…

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #42

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in Portait of a Lady

Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism. She became an artist against great odds, as did any woman in late-18th-century Paris, and aided by the patronage of Marie Antoinette, went on to thrive in a nine-lives, astutely managed sort of…

Apollonio Facchinetti, VENICE, A VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #58

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in Venice

The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…

LES JOUEURS DE DAMES/ CHECKERS PLAYERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, with footnotes, 56

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in Orientalists

Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…

Sunday, February 25, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #21

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in Portait of a Lady

Abel Dominique Boye, 1864-1934, FRENCH LA ROUSSE/ The redhead Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 29 in., 100 by 73.5 cm Private collection Abel-Dominique Boyé (6 May 1864–1934) was a French painter. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. His principal works include: Nymph of Diana (bronze medal, 1888); Pit Sawyer (Agen, 1889); Twilight (1891); Sunday in Seville (1893); and…

06 Ancient Arabian Engravings – With footnotes –

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in MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Uncategorized

Arabian Bronze Statuette, ca. 1st Millenium BCE Southwestern Arabia, modern day Yemen, 1st millennium BCE. This is a bronze statuette of a human figure with thin arms and legs and a somewhat animalistic face, complete with two pointed ears. During the first millennium BCE, this part of the world saw several kingdoms – Qataban, Saba…

04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40

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in Portait of a Lady, Uncategorized

Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…

Continental School, A rider approaching an oasis encampment 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 50

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