Tag: Fine Art
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04 Photographs, Albert Watson’s Lisa Taylor, Nina, Monica Gripman and Heloise, 1977, With Footnotes #82
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Michel Corneille the Elder’s Death of Virginia, with Footnotes
Estimated for 150,000 – 250,000 EUR in June 2022The subject recounts the death of Virginia, daughter of a centurion in the Roman army, condemned to marry a slave by one of the magistrates of the decemvir, Appius Claudius Sabinus, because she had rejected his advances. She was stabbed to death by her own father in…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Magdalene Legend’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #183
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 EUR in June 2022In the present painting, characteristics typical of the Master of the Magdalene Legend include the graceful modelling of the flesh; the light falling delicately on the faces; the Virgin’s eyes, piously lowered; the finely delineated hair with lighter reflections; and the shadows on the eyelids and neck. More…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Max’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 190
Sold for $1,300 USD in January 2022 Peter Max is a German artist known for his unique brand of rainbow-hued prints and paintings, which he has created since the early 1960s. Employing painterly strokes, his illustrations incorporate a wide spectrum of colors and patterns as seen in his Umbrella Man series. “I’m just wowed by the…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Eugène Fromentin’s The Charge, with footnotes #109
Estimate at 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in March 2022Fromentin made his first visit to Algeria secretly, in 1846, to attend a wedding. Returning twice to North Africa, he built a successful career as an Orientalist painter and was a frequent contributor to the Paris Salon. The vivid drama of The Charge is characteristic of Fromentin’s later…
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26 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes #8
Sold for 81,250 GBP in Dec 2016 The girl in the present work wears an ornate Ottoman gold coin headdress with a fringe of star-shaped amulets, and a matching necklace. With her white diaphanous veil and dress, and hair braided into a bun, she is dressed for a special occasion or celebration, possibly her own…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Miles Aldridge’s Better Than Life and Thought after Filthy Thought, with footnotes # 189
Miles Aldridge’s uncanny, saturated portraits riff on cinematic glamour and erotic tropes. Throughout his work, Aldridge draws on a range of influences, from filmmakers such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini to photographer Richard Avedon and movements including Pop art and psychedelia… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis Cotes’ Portrait of the Duchess of Marlborough, with Footnotes #199
Sold for 15,120 GBP in April 2022 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain. By the time Anne became…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft’s Untitled (La Guitariste/Knowing to Perform), with Footnotes #61
Estimate for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in October 2022Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft was born in Jerusalem in 1947, later lived and grew up in Haifa and Nazareth where she now resides; married with four children. The artist started drawing and painting as a hobby in her childhood. Fourteen years after her marriage, she joined the school of arts…
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07 Works, Today, June 18th, is martyr Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus’s day, their story in Paintings #169
Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodolus were Roman soldiers who, according to Christian tradition, were martyred for their faith… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, June 18th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #166
Peter Nicolai Arbo (18 June 1831–14 October 1892) was a Norwegian historical painter, who specialized in portraits and allegorical scenes from Norwegian history and the Norse mythology. He is most noted for The Wild Hunt of Odin (See below), a dramatic motif based on the Wild Hunt legend and Valkyrie, which depicts a female figure…
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01 Painting Interpretation of the bible, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #182
Sold for USD 226,800 in un 2022 A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend. According to the tenets of the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Flemish school’s Pietà, with Footnotes #181
The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ. When Christ and the Virgin are…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Odd Nerdrum’s Daddy’s Girl, With Footnotes #80
In this 2014 oil painting Nerdrum returns to the beautiful nude couple of Summer Nights (see below). But now they are aged and decrepit, the woman lay dying across the lap of her grieving partner. Yet at their feet the infant still sleeps… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Jack Welpott’s Janet in Her Room, with footnotes # 187
A nude woman wears a mask as she looks out the window. Next to her is a print of Gustav Klimt’s “Judith and the Head of Holofernes”. Jack Welpott (1923–2007) was an American photographer born in Kansas City, grew up in southern Indiana. and was educated at primary and secondary schools in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Pieter Breughel the Younger’s Marriage Procession, With Footnotes #81
Flemish wedding processions, as depicted here, publically announced the union of two families before the private, religious ceremony was held at a church. The bride wears her hair down and uncovered except for the wedding headpiece. The groom, wearing a wedding crown atop his bright red cap, is followed by two men, probably the fathers…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Mary Villiers as Saint Agnes, with Footnotes #198
Sold for £5,100 in April 2022 The original painting (in the Royal Collection, Windsor) was presumably painted for Charles I, who gave the sitter away at her wedding to the Duke of Lennox in 1637. It has been remarked that she looks older than 15, the age she would have been in the year of her…
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04 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcel Gromaire’s Femme nue, with footnotes # 186
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892–11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Warren Brandt’s Relaxing Nude, with footnotes # 185
Sold for $687.50 in January 2020 “Working in the tradition of Henri Matisse, Brandt has adopted beauty and realism as his concerns. Brandt has managed to bridge the gap between the masters of the Western tradition, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Bonnard, Max Beckmann and Willem de Kooning.” Warren Brandt (1918-2002) studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at…
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27 Paintings from Émile Henri Bernard’s ten year stay in Egypt, with footnotes
Bernard left France in 1893 and had lived abroad for ten years before returning to his native country. Intrigued by Orientalist works of the previous generations artists — Ingres, Delacroix, and others — he sought to create his own works depicting similarly scenes and characters… Please follow link for full post
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