Tag: Fine Art
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Lot and his daughters, with Footnotes #186
Sold for 16,250 USD in June 2014 Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Carlo Bononi’s The Martyrdom of Saint Cristina, with Footnotes – #185
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €11,000 EUR in June 11, 2022Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s seated couple drinking wine, With Footnotes #82
Sold for 8,750 GBP in September 2019 Here, two figures are seated before a stone wall around a wooden table. Behind the male figure at left, who with his left hand reaches for the chin of the female beside him and raises a glass in his right, is an evening vista. Great detail has been used…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Gustave Vanaise’s Magdalene in Christ’s tomb, with Footnotes #184
Sold for 10,080 EUR in June 2022 Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. An earthquake occurred and an angel dressed in white descended from Heaven and rolled aside the stone as the women were watching.Vanaise moved to Paris in August 1878. He spent two years there and painted his first large history paintings, which he began…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri Rousseau’s The Hunt, with footnotes #111
Sold for 9,450 GBP in March 2022 The hunting of wild animals for food, sport or for the defence of people and herds,was common in the ancient Near East, especially in early times. The hunter’s pursuit of the quarry mirrors Fate’s pursuit of both humans and nonhumans and highlights the ambiguity of the encounter. With breathtaking…
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01 painting, Portrait of a Lady, Harold Von Schmidt’s Friendly Persuasion, with Footnotes
Sold for $1,300 USD in April 2017 The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. The book is about a Quaker farming family living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana along “the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Nadia Saikali’s Paysage de Montagne, with Footnotes #63
Sold for 35,280 GBP in October 2022 “Too many people theorize and politicize about one’s choice of colours in painting. This is not what I put forward in my works. After having focused my attention on the four elements mentioned in the Genesis: Earth- Fire- Water- Air, I now feel like expressing freely my joy to…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Friedrich Sturm’s Paolo and Francesca, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 6,300 EUR in November 2022 In the late eighteenth century, a romantic admiration for Dante spread throughout Europe and a whole generation of artists was inspired by his writings. Sturm, like artists such as Ingres before him, chose to illustrate the theme of the famous Canto V of Dante’s Inferno, which relates the last…
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04 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Durando Togo Richard’s Femme Fatale, with footnotes #193
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s Inequal love, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 5,040 EUR in November 2022 The painting shows the theme of the ill-matched couple, a popular theme in the arts of the period, though generally the one making the proposition is a man to a courtesan, not a woman to a man. The theme generally shows the man offering the woman a ring in…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Washington’s A Mounted Warrior, with footnotes #110
Sold for 75,600 GBP in March 2022 Historically, cavalry soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback. Cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry in the roles of reconnaissance, screening, and skirmishing in many armies, or as heavy cavalry for decisive shock attacks in other armies. More on A Mounted WorriorGeorge…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sigismund de Ivanowski’s Window Shoppers, with Footnotes #201
Sold for 10,625 USD in June 2017The subject matter of the present work celebrates some of the important cultural themes of the Gilded Age: the growth of a consumerist culture and the advent of department stores (Macy’s moved into its current, Beaux-Arts style building on the corner of 34th street in Manhattan in 1902), as well…
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41 Works, June 30th. is Stanley Spencer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #177
Painting such as Villagers and Saints articulate Spencer’s unique understanding of Christianity. In the work, Spencer combines the religious and the ordinary — the villagers are connecting to the saintly and spiritual world, while the saints exist in the physical world… Please follow link for full post
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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William Mortensen’s Youth, with footnotes #192
Sold for US$130 in Jan 2018 William Mortensen (27 January 1897 – 12 August 1965) was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style. He was born William Herbert Mortensen on January 27, 1897 in Park City, Utah, the son of Danish immigrants. During World War I, Mortensen served…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Honourable John Maler Collier’s Mrs Dalahaye, with Footnotes #200
Sold for £17,500 in March 2017 Ina De La Haye was a Russian born actress and singer. Born in St, Petersburg in 1906, Fedosia and her younger brother Ilya fled Russia following the Revolution. By 1921 she was working as a correspondent for a journal in Riga, and by 1924 she had entered London society. Fedosia…
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01 Work, 19th Century, English School’s The witch, with Footnotes
On the continent, where the witch trials first originated, an association with the Devil was one of the main indications that someone was a witch. In England, however, inflicting harm upon others, or causing maleficium, usually led to accusations of witchcraft. More on The witch In the 18th century, English painting finally developed a distinct style and…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Mahmoud Said’s Eid al-Adha, with Footnotes #25
Eid al-Adha, a Muslim festival, marking the culmination of the hajj (pilgrimage) rites at Minā, Saudi Arabia. Eid al-Adha is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer at daybreak on its first day. It begins on the 10th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, June 24th. is Jan Matejko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #171
Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history… Please follow link for full post
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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Biblis and Spring Breeze, with footnotes # 191
Bouguereau writes: “Among my paintings, “Biblis” is one that I love the most, one that I most enjoyed painting; this even though it was inspired by an incident in the atelier. One of my female models had just asked to rest from a tiring pose; when the young woman was in the process of standing…
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03 Works, Robert McGinnis’ interpretations of Richard Scott Prather’s novels Adrienne, Renee and Rose Garland, with Footnotes #83
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment) Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films… Please follow link for full post
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