Tag: Fine Art
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Félix Vallotton’s The Purple Hat, with footnotes #200
In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Herb Ritts’ Nicole Kidman, Culver City, with Footnotes #222
Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Since the 1920s, Culver City has been a center for film and later television production, best known as the home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. From 1932 to 1986, it was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company. National Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment have headquarters…
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09 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Robert Brackman’s Working Women, with Footnotes #221
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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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William Wallace Gilchrist’s Morning vs night, with footnotes #201
William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., American, 1879–1926, gained notoriety as a portrait painter who captured introspective moments of stillness in his subjects. His genre and landscape scenes, too, excelled in creating serene and deeply personal images of his surroundings… Please follow link for full post
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25 Works, August 21st. is Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #198
Denis Diderot was an unofficial art adviser to Catherine the Great of Russia. It was no coincidence when the painting he praised was purchased directly from the artist by Catherine’s agents and shipped to Saint Petersburg, where it remains. This peculiar mid-18th century French painting-genre of the “edifying family tableau” was exactly suited to Diderot’s…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hugo Birger’s Sten Sture frees the Danish Queen from captivity in the Wadstena, with Footnotes #220
Sold for SEK65,000 in Jun 2022Christina of Saxony (born Torgau, 25 December 1461 – died Odense, 8 December 1521), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John. When the War of Deposition against King Hans and Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512) took place later that same year, John left Sweden for Denmark in August 1501…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Mel Ramos’ Wonder Woman, with Footnotes #219
Sold for US$2,500 in ?Known for his provocative images that mix the idealized woman with imagery of popular culture, this lithograph by Mel Ramos depicts one of the most iconic fictional superheroes: Wonder Woman. Depicted here with voluptuous curves and with her hands behind her head in a departure from her signature hands-on-hips power pose, Ramos…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Sliman Mansour’s ON THE EDGE, with Footnotes #33
Estimate for 30,000 – 40,000 GBP in March 2020 Sliman Mansour ( born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lidia Wylangowska’s Forte, with Footnotes #218
Lidia Wylangowska: “My art tells my story. It’s a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. The technique…
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06 works, Today, August 18th, is the Saints Florus and Laurus’ day, their story illustrated #230
Archangel Michael holds two saddled horses on long reins. Flor and Lavr on either side of it stand on the tops of the hills. Under the archangel are two horse-breeders, the third horse-breeder is placed lower in the left corner. In the lower part of the composition near a semi-oval reservoir, horses with foals are…
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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Attributed to Charles Chaplin’s Daydreaming, with footnotes #199
Sold for £3,187.50 in May 2020 Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women.Charles…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, with Footnotes #197
According to tradition, Saint Luke created the first portraits of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus from life, making him the patron saint of painters. Here, in one of the most important Renaissance paintings in North America, Rogier van der Weyden introduces an unprecedented sense of naturalism, grounding a sacred episode in everyday experience. More…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Antoni Casanova Estorach’s The Center of Attention, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 11,340 USD in January 2023Antonio Casanova y Estorach was a Spanish painter known for his romanticized depictions of everyday scenes or Costumbrismo. He studied under masters such as Federico de Madrazo and Claudio Lorenzale, and he showed great promise at a young age, exhibiting his work at major exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona beginning at…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch ‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hell, with Footnotes #196
Sold for GBP 112,500 in Jul 2022 Hieronymus Bosch’s extraordinary pictorial vocabulary had a widely-felt impact on the visual arts that endured for decades after his death in 1516. His vividly imagined, tormented hellscapes were extensively reproduced and reworked by painters working in the Netherlands throughout the sixteenth century, and the ubiquity of his imagery was…
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Lalla Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Maroc/ The Women of Morocco Revisited #1, with Footnotes #67
Sold for 10,080 GBP in October 2022 “Arab women today are facing difficulties and Orientalist attitudes from Arab and Western societies alike…they remain defined by their sexuality, threatening to men but appealing to Western fantasies. My photographs seek to portray Arab women as powerful presences in their own right.” (THE ARTIST – QUOTED IN THE STRAITS TIMES –…
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03 Works, Malcolm Liepke’s Artist’s Studio, with Footnotes #85
Liepke favors portraits of ordinary women in glamorous contexts, producing voyeuristic nudes that are sexualized through a realistic lens rather than a pornographic one… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Maxwell Ashby Armfield’s Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, with Footnotes #196
Estimate for GBP 15,000 – GBP 25,000 in Jul 2022 Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Luis Morales’ Our Lady of Sorrows, with Footnotes #195
Sold for €5,000 in Jul 2022 Our Lady of Sorrows, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows, and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life. As Mater Dolorosa,…
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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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05 works, Today, August 10th, is Blessed Laurence’s day, his story illustrated #222
Blessed Laurence lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century at the distance of 533 meters from old Kaluga, near a forest church in honor of the Nativity of Christ, set upon a high hill. During the period of Tartar raids Kaluga was the western end of the Oka bank defense line… Please follow link…
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