Tag: History
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Paul-Émile Bécat’s Reclining nude with an attendant, with footnotes #231
Sold for US$15,075 in July 2020 Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from…
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15 Works, Today, February 16th. is artist Théodore Jacques Ralli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #047
Théodore Jacques Ralli was a Greek painter, watercolourist and draughtsman, who spent most of his working life in France and Egypt… Please follow link for full post
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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 by Orientalist Artists. Henry Guillaume Schlesinger’s A harem interior, with footnotes, #99
Sold for £44,400 in Jun 2022 This group of eleven women form an arc which draws the viewer into the centre of the composition and concentrates the eye on the man and his costume. No detail is spared – a parrot can be seen playing with a woman whose hair is adorned with fresh roses…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzales’ A Secret Love, with Footnotes #96
Sold for USD 38,400 in Oct 2005 In the present work, Palmaroli, inspired by the anceint world, depicts two classical figures. He possessed a great sensitivity to rendering the human figure and has carefully considered the way the drapery of their togas fall on the body of the man and woman. More on this paintingVicente Palmaroli González (5…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Randall Bratby’s Venice Canal, with footnotes, #126
Sold for £2,040 in May 2020 John Randall Bratby (1928-1992), studied at the Royal College of Art (1951-54), and it was for his generation of RCA students that David Sylvester coined the phrase ‘Kitchen Sink’, to describe the realism of their art. In 1956 he was included in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in…
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06 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Saint Mary Magdalene by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino- with footnotes #196
Mary of Magdala was a leading figure among those attracted to Jesus. When the men in that company abandoned him at the hour of mortal danger, Mary of Magdala was one of the women who stayed with him, even to the Crucifixion…. Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Muhanna Durra’s Untitled, with Footnotes, #70
Estimate for $4,000-$8,000 in June 2023 Muhanna Al-Dura was born in 1938, in Amman, Jordan, to a Lebanese mother and a Turkish father, He is a Jordanian Painter and a diplomat. He was one of the first painters to introduce abstract art, mainly cubism, into the Jordanian art scene. Still a schoolboy, Durra was trained…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Michael Ancher’s Three fishermen from Skagen hauling in their net, With Footnotes, #322
Estimated for kr300,000 DKK – kr500,000 DKK in Jun 2012 Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist. He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Ancher was born on the island of Bornholm. He attended school…
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), mistress of Charles II of England, with Footnotes. #138
Nell Gwyn was an actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism…. Please follow link for full post
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #229
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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01 Religious Icon, Theotokos of Vladimir, the holy protectress of Russia, with footnotes #45
Theotokos of Vladimir. About 1131 the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople sent the icon as a gift to Grand Duke Yury Dolgorukiy of Kiev. The image was kept in a monastery, until Dolgorukiy’s son Andrey Bogolyubskiy brought it to his favourite city, Vladimir, in 1155. Tradition tells that the horses transporting the icon stopped near Vladimir…
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15 Works, The amorous game, Fifteen artists imbedded with Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, with Footnotes #101
Dante tells the story of Paolo and Francesca, lovers as famous and ill-fated as Hero and Leander, Eloise and Abelard or Romeo and Juliet… Please follow link for full post
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Margaret, Duchess of Parma, with Footnotes. #137
The court painter Anthonis Mor probably made this portrait of Margaret, Duchess of Parma (1522-1586), around the time her half-brother, Philip II of Spain, appointed her to be governor of the Netherlands in August of 1559 Please follow link for full post
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09 Works, Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes — 31
Saints Cyrus and John are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Italian School, early 18th Century’s Anthony and Cleopatra , with Footnotes #106
Sold for 18,900 EUR in June 2021 Anthony and Cleopatra are arguably the most famous lovers in history. Marcus Antonius of Rome stood at the pinnacle of power, fighting to be the most powerful man in the known world; and Cleopatra VII Philopator was the queen of one ancient civilization, Egypt, and heir to the unmatched cultural…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Moses Soyer’s Ballet Class, with Footnotes. #133
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 — September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899… 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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