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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Helisena Girl’s Maeia with child, with Footnotes – #57
Sold for €1,100 EUR in Mar 2023 Maria with child or Madonna and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Jan Miel’s The feeding of the poor at the gates of a monastery – with footnotes #199
Estimated for £7,000 – £10,000 in June 2025 The Seven Acts of Mercy, also known as the Corporal Works of Mercy, are a set of seven compassionate acts that address the physical needs of others, according to Catholic tradition. They include feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Inji Efflatoun’s Mabrouka (She who is Blessed), with Footnotes #70
Estimated for £30,000 – £50,000 in May 2025 Painted in 1953, in the immediate aftermath of Egypt’s revolution, Mabrouka stands among Inji Efflatoun’s most powerful early works: a poignant portrayal of maternal hardship and quiet resistance, rendered in her deeply empathetic figurative style. The title, Mabrouka, holds dual meaning, it may refer to the name…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Alphonse Legros’ Femmes en Prière/ Women at prayer – with footnotes #201
This work portrays a group of mainly young women, seated or kneeling to pray, in a dimly lit austere French church. The women are all dressed in black with primarily white caps. One cannot conceive anything more gently touching than this grand and pensive scheme, where all is on the same lofty level – sentiment,…
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01 Religious Icon, Central Franconian Master’s Saint Margaret of Antioch, with footnotes #46
Sold for USD 39,000 .- in Nov 2022 St. Margaret of Antioch, also called St. Marina, (flourished 3rd or 4th century, Antioch, Syria), virgin martyr and was one of the most venerated saints during the Middle Ages. Her story, generally regarded to be fictitious, is substantially that of the Eastern St. Marina of Antioch and is related…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Jacob de Backer’s Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, with footnotes #38
Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and considered in Greek myth to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city,…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Harry Morley’s A Wayside Madonna, with Footnotes – #53
A small group of women stand behind the foreground sitter, their silent attitudes seeming to turn in judgement against her. The gate to her village beyond is shut, symbolising the refusal of passage to the mother (Madonna) to her home; Palestine! Harry Morley was born in Leicester, England on 5 April 1881 and studied architecture at…
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01 Marine Painting, Joseph Milne’s Tayport, With Footnotes, #324
Sold for £956.25 in May 2022 Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Quentin Massys’ The Virgin and Child with a still life on a ledge, with Footnotes – #204
Estimate for 10,000 – 15,000 GBP in Dec 2022 The composition for this painting is taken from Quentin Massys’s Virgin and Child outdoors dated to about 1526 and preserved in the Detroit Institute of Arts.1 In this particular version, a landscape has been substituted for a warm golden-brown background which pigment analysis has shown to…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Kent Monkman’s Welcoming the Newcomers, with Footnotes
The truism that (art) history is written by the victors has a particular relevance to the narratives and images created during the heyday of European colonial empires in the Americas. Sculptures and paintings made from the beginning of contact through to the twentieth century show Indigenous North Americans as figures who are destined to fade…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jacques-Émile Blanche’s Lady in Black (Élisabeth Greffulhe), with Footnotes. #233
Estimated for GBP 80,000 – GBP 120,000 in Dec 2023 Countess Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth Greffulhe (11 July 1860 – 21 August 1952) was a French socialite, known as a renowned beauty and queen of the salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Joseph de Riquet de Caraman.…
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