Tag: Painting
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Peder Mønsted’s Washerwomen at Bordighera, with Footnotes. #154
Bordighera is a town and comune in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy), located 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the land border between Italy and France. Having the “Capo Sant’Ampelio” which protrudes into the sea, it is the southernmost commune of the region. The cape is at around the same latitude as Pisa and features a little church…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Portrait of Roxelana (Haseki Hurrem Sultan), with Footnotes #150
Known in the West as Roxelana, this painting depicts one of the most famous women of the Ottoman empire. Originally from what is now western Ukraine she was sold at an early age… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Omar El-Nagdi’s Untitled (Surat Yasin), with Footnotes #73
Estimate for 60,000 – 80,000 GBP in Oct 2025 Nagdi’s works can be found in the United States’ Congress Library, Washington DC; the Museum of Modern Art, Venice; the National Library, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Cairo; the Museum of Fine Art, Alexandria; and the Museum of Modern Art, South Korea. He has exhibited…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Jamil Molaeb’s Jerusalem, with Footnotes, #63
Estimated for $7,000 USD – $10,000 USD in May 2025 Jamil Molaeb (1948) was born in Baissour, Lebanon. He started his artistic career in the seventies, after training under renowned artists such as Chafic Abboud and Paul Guiragossian at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University. In 1967, 18 years old Jamil Molaeb won the 3rd…
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01 Photograph, Albert Watson’s Linda at The 75th season for the Yankees, with Footnotes
The 1977 New York Yankees season was the 75th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 100–62 and won the World Series. The series victory was the 21st title in franchise history and the first under the ownership of George Steinbrenner. New York was managed by Billy Martin and played at…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Makart’s Karoline Gomperz, with Footnotes. #153
Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, (1 June 1845, in Pest – 13 December 1925, in Vienna) was a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna. Her younger brother was Anton Bettelheim. She was born at Pest (Budapest), Hungary. She studied pianoforte with Karl Goldmark, and singing with Moritz Laufer. At the age of 14, she…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a young woman, with Footnotes. #152
Makart was one of the premier portraitists of his time, with a clientele consisting of members of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. He developed a specific style of female portrait, showing the sitter in full length, painted loosely in a sketch-like manner in a restrained colour palette. Some, however, criticised his work for its superficial treatment…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Paul Rieth’s Adam and Eve, with Footnotes – #131
Estimated for 5,000 – 20,000 EUR in March 2023 In a desolate landscape of rocks and brown and red cliffs, with no way to escape, a naked Adam and Eve, marked by the original sin, lament their fate. Rieth has here reduced the narrative to its essentials, without introducing any unnecessary picturesque element, focusing on the guilt…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Helisena Girl’s Maeia with child, with Footnotes – #57
Sold for €1,100 EUR in Mar 2023 Maria with child or Madonna and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman’s Female Nude on the Ladder, #243
Sold for for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022 The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog’s nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It’s hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure.…
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Terence Patrick O’Neill’s Audrey Hepburn in Pool, with Footnotes. #152
Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Two for the Road’, 1966, where Joanna and her architect husband, Mark Wallace have been married for a decade, and their relationship’s become very rocky… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sidney Maure’s Marilyn Monroe (Died on this day in 1962), with Footnotes. #144
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution. In 1999, the American…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Le Pho’s Idylle (Idyll), with Footnotes #101
Sold for HKD 2,000,000 in Nov 2017 Idylle is the term used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing. Examples of the…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Frank Henry Mason’s Unloading barges in Bristol harbour, With Footnotes, #321
Sold for £750 in Nov, 2018 Bristol Harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28 hectares). It is the former natural tidal river Avon through the city but was made into its current form in 1809 when the tide was prevented from going out permanently. A tidal by-pass was dug for 2 miles through the fields of…
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01 Painting of The amorous game, William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience, Part 9 – With Footnotes
A gentleman has installed his mistress (known to be such because of her absence of a wedding ring) in a house for their meetings. As they play and singt, she has a sudden spiritual revelation. Rising from her lover’s lap, she gazes into the sunlit garden beyond, which is reflected in the mirror behind her.…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Khalil Saleeby’s Salome, with Footnotes #68
Sold for 21,250 USD in November 2017 Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Flavius Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dame Laura Knight’s Make-up (Dressing Room), with Footnotes #150
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in December 2022 The present painting depicts the inner sanctum of the ballerinas world, the cluttered dressing-room where a group of young ballerinas are applying their lipstick, filing their finger-nails and assessing their make-up in the mirrors. Knight described the scene of a ballerina’s dressing-room thus; ‘The dressing-table, crowded with pots…
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01 Painting, Yusuf Arakkal’s Untitled, with footnotes
Estimated for Rs 2,50,000-Rs 3,500,00 ( $3,050-$4,270 ) in June 2023 Yusuf Arakkal (1945 – 2016) was an Indian artist. Arakkal was born in Chavakkad, Kerala. Both his parents died when he was young. Leaving the comforts of his house behind, he left for Bangalore, lonely but with a passion to become a painter. The hardships…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, MT COHEN’s Portrait of a woman, with Footnotes. #144
I have not been able to find ant information on the artist, MT COHEN. The artist’s first piece to be offered at auction was “M.T. COHEN Portrait de femme” at Artcurial in 2022. Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, Middle East Artists, 365 Saints and 365 Days, also…
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02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys’ Cassandra, with Footnotes #148
The most beautiful daughter of King Priam of Troy, Cassandra caught the notice of Apollo, who gave her the gift of prophesy. However, when the god came to her at night, she rejected him and he ordered that her prophesies should not be believed… Please follow link for full post
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