Tag: Café
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04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Jurij Frey’s Cafe, Paris, with footnotes, Part 89
Parisian cafés are a type of café found mainly in Paris, where they can serve as a meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and a place to relax or to refuel for Parisian citizens… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Harry Kernoff’s July Morn, Place du Tertre, Paris, with footnotes, Part 88
Sold for 50,800 EUR in May 2023 We see Kernoff’s artistic focus reflected in name of the café on the left of the present work: Jeune Peinture. Discreetly sat underneath it – between two cloth capped locals – is Kernoff himself, wearing his customary trilby hat. In the lower right corner, an elderly figure stands with…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Lucien Laurent-Gsell’s Suicidée, with footnotes, Part 87
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in June 2023 The painting, which is larger than life-size, may be «Suicidée!» which Laurent-Gsell exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. A young woman has been pulled from the Seine by two strapping men, wearing workman’s boots and blue trousers, with water still dripping…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris,Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s A flower seller on les grands boulevards, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimate at 60,000 – 80,000 USD in June 2023 Filled with concert venues, theatres, cafés and restaurants, the Grands Boulevards area has long been popular with Parisians as a place of enjoyment and relaxation. There are many treasures to be uncovered: grand architecture, places steeped in history, covered passages that have retained their old-world charm,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Valery Tsarikovsky’s Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 97
Estimate at $400-$600 in June 2023 The Pont Neuf (“New Bridge”) is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Le Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 85
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 GBP in December 2009 Here, Béraud captures the spirit of the moment, as workers, bankers in top hats, bakers, an upholsterer carrying a chair on his head, and cabbies make their way across Paris’s oldest bridge, even in Béraud’s day a listed monument. Shoppers flock to the capital’s recently opened retail…
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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, 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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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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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Henricus Gerardus de Korte’s Garden Party , with footnotes, Part 93
Estimate Price in May 2023, $600 – $800 A garden party is a gathering of people at an outdoor venue, particularly of social elites… Hennie De Korte was born January 5, 1941, he spent his early years in Australia after his family moved there from Utrecht, Holland. He first began to study painting in 1957…
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12 Works, January 4th is Augustus Edwin John’s day, #004
Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain…. Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, Today January 3rd is August Robert Ludwig Macke’s day #003
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887–26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Frank Boggs and Eugène Galien- Laloue’s Images of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris , with footnotes, Part 95
The famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens to great fanfare… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Antoon Heinsbergen’s Paris Opera House, with footnotes, Part 92
For sale for 4,500 USD in October 2023 A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies. Opéra, also known as Palais Garnier, formerly Académie Nationale de Musique, Parisian opera house designed by Charles Garnier. The building, considered one of…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Federico Zandomeneghis Au théâtre/ At the theater, with footnotes, Part 91
Two élégantes of the Paris beau monde are seen from behind, entranced by the dazzling performance by the young troupe of dancers unfolding on the stage before them. The setting is almost certainly the capital’s new opera house, recently opened in 1875 – the Palais Garnier, named after its architect, Charles Garnier, and home to…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Paul Gustav Fischer’s An Evening Stroll on the Boulevard, with footnotes, Part 90
Sold for 65.500 USD in Jan 2011 Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter. Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father had started as a painter, but later succeeded in the business of manufacturing paints and lacquers. His formal art education lasted only a short time in his…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Elisée Maclet’s Vue de Montmartre, with footnotes, Part 89
Estimated for £1,000 – £1,500 in July 2022 With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.…
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27 Paintings of Parisian Street Scenes by the Artists of the time, 19 Century, with footnotes #2
A view of the famous Paris attractions and the city’s most picturesque streets. Today I’ll share some of the most famous streets, avenues, and boulevards in the French capital to help you learn about the streets that made Paris what it is! The French capital is one of the most striking examples of rational urban…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Marché aux fleurs, with footnotes, Part 87
Sold for 44,100 USD in January 2023 Victor Gilbert was celebrated as the foremost painter of Parisian marchés during the final decades of the 19th century, when daily markets proliferated throughout the French capital to satisfy the growing upper and middle classes. Located on Place Louis Lépine between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle chapel, the flower…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Beraud’s Pont de Bercy, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimated for £80,000 GBP – £120,000 GBP in November 2005 The Pont de Bercy is a bridge over the Seine in Paris. It links the 12th and 13th arrondissement of Paris by extending the Boulevard de Bercy and Boulevard Vincent-Auriol. In addition to the roadway, the bridge also carries Line 6 of the Paris Métro, between…
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