Tag: footnotes
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13 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, TOM WESSELMANN’s Reclining Stockinged Nudes, with footnotes #197
Unique works from the Stockinged Nude series: 26 hand-painted works, each with different colour combinations of hair, skin and stockings… Please follow link for full post
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Julio Romero De Torres’ muse María Teresa Lopez González, with Footnotes #211
María Teresa Lopez González, born in Argentina, she moved with her family to Julio Romero de Torres’s native Córdoba after World War I. There she first sat for the painter aged just 14 years old, and became the artist’s favourite model… Please follow link for full post
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46
In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, Caravaggio’s Christ Crowned with Thorns, with Footnotes #191
The subject of the Crowning of Thorns was well suited to interpretation by Caravaggesque painters, whose preference for intense staging and dramatic lighting matched its harsh realism… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Kimberly Dow’s Bewitched and Beguiled, with footnotes #196
Kimberly Dow is an American contemporary artist that started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion… Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Nils Forsberg’s The Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes #113
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in October 2022Almah (Egyptian dancer), was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. They were educated girls of good social standing, trained in dancing, singing and poetry, present at festivals and entertainments, and…
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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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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Canon’s Kitchen piece with maid, with Footnotes #210
A young woman stretches for a wicker basket with turnips, turned her head in three-quarter profile towards the viewer. The flowy dress reveals her muscular body and glowing skin. In front of her in an artful arrangement are fish, game and various vegetables. More on this painting Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka…
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01 Marine Painting, Jules Achille Noël’s Elegant figures on the beach, Tréport, with Footnotes #285
Estimated for £6,000 – £8,000 in June 2020 Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe. The mouth of the Bresle river meets the English Channel here,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HUBLIN Émile Auguste’s Jeune paysanne, with Footnotes #206
Emile-Auguste Hublin was a painter best-known for peasant genre scenes rendered in a Neoclassical style, Emile Auguste Hublin (1830–c. 1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou. In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student…
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01 Marine Painting, Ester Almqvist’s Gothenburg Harbour with Boats in the Ice, With Footnotes #384
The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic countries. The port is situated on both sides of the estuary of Göta älv in Gothenburg. The north shore, Norra Älvstranden, is on Hisingen island and the south shore, Södra Älvstranden, is on the mainland. It is a combined river and coastal port. More…
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01 Marine Painting – Vasilios Chatzis’ Byzantine naval battle, with Footnotes #386
Sold for £6,312.50 in May 2020 “Two years ago, Vassilios Hatzis undertook to bring back to life an entire historical era, and since then has been engaged in the depiction of the Byzantine fleet. Since there are no previous studies in this field to assist him in his work, his historical research has been, and…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hovsep Pushman’s Woman in Robe, with Footnotes #204
Sold for $30,000 USD in May 2019 Hovsep Pushman, 1877 – 1966, a naturalized American citizen, was born in Armenia in 1877. At age 11, he held a scholarship at the Constantinople Academy of Art. By 17, he had gone to the United States and started teaching art in Chicago. He studied the culture of China,…
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02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, The Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with Footnotes #190
An interpretation of a subject often described as the Cristo passo – a theme explored in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venetian representations by Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Cima da Conegliano and others… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Victor Guerrier’s Au café, with Footnotes, #83
Sold for 7 500EUR in Octobre 2017 Victor Guerrier, (French, 1893-1968) was born and trained in Lyon living much of his life at Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or. He began his career as an illustrator but made his name painting Belle Epoque subjects and Parisian life between the wars. Clearly inspired by the work of Impressionist masters…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Raoul Dufy’s Nu à l’orchestre/ Nude in the orchestra, with footnotes #195
Sold for Sold for £37,562.50 in October 2020 Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was french painter and the brother of Jean Dufy. But he was not only a painter, but a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, furniture designer and planner of public spaces. Dufy grew up in a large family from Le Havre in Normandy, France. At…
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12 Works, July 16th. is Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #193
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (July 16, 1806 – July 15 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries… Please follow link for full post
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