Tag: Painting
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cecil Aldin’s Land Girl Ploughing, with Footnotes #147
The scene shows two grey horses harnessed to a plough being driven by a Land Girl, moving from right to left of the composition. Beyond the girl is a view of the distant countryside. A storm is brewing in the grey sky above their heads. More on this painting The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a British…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Rose Datoc Dall’s First News of the Resurrection, with Footnotes – #53
The women disciples who went to the Savior’s tomb that first Easter Sunday, to anoint His body with spices. They encountered an angel who told them that Jesus has risen. They were told to spread the news to the disciples. These women were the first bearers of news of the resurrection. Filipina-American artist, Rose Datoc…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Beatris Burgoin’s Water Protectors, with Footnotes, part #143
Water protectors are activists, organizers, and cultural workers focused on the defense of the world’s water and water systems. The water protector name, analysis and style of activism arose from Indigenous communities in North America during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at the Standing Rock Reservation, which began with an encampment on LaDonna Brave Bull Allard’s…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris,Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s A flower seller on les grands boulevards, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimate at 60,000 – 80,000 USD in June 2023 Filled with concert venues, theatres, cafés and restaurants, the Grands Boulevards area has long been popular with Parisians as a place of enjoyment and relaxation. There are many treasures to be uncovered: grand architecture, places steeped in history, covered passages that have retained their old-world charm,…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Gonzalo Bilbao Martinez’s Procession of the Seven Words, with Footnotes – #53
The “Procession of the Seven Words” refers to a religious event, a solemn procession that often takes place on Good Friday, where participants, particularly members of religious brotherhoods, reflect on and commemorate the seven last words of Jesus on the cross. The artwork depicts the entrance of the Brotherhood of the Seven Words into a…
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02 Paintings, Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David and Julie Roberts, with footnotes
The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist’s friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. One of the most famous images from the era of the French Revolution…” Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chant Avedissian’s Leyla Fawzy, with Footnotes. #186
Sold for GBP 6,300 in Nov 2022 Laila Fawzi (E1923 – January 12, 2005) was an Egyptian actress and model. She was one of the pioneers of Egyptian cinema and starred in over 85 films throughout her career. In 1940, she was crowned Miss Egypt. Fawzi was born in Turkey to Egyptian parents. Her father owned fabric stores…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Terrick Williams’ Moonlight, Venice, with footnotes #130
Estimated for 18 000 – 20 600 USD in May 2020 John Terrick Williams RA (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936). Williams was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London. Determination to become an artist he move to Europe and studied under Charles Verlat in Antwerp…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Inji Efflatoun’s Mabrouka (She who is Blessed), with Footnotes #70
Estimated for £30,000 – £50,000 in May 2025 Painted in 1953, in the immediate aftermath of Egypt’s revolution, Mabrouka stands among Inji Efflatoun’s most powerful early works: a poignant portrayal of maternal hardship and quiet resistance, rendered in her deeply empathetic figurative style. The title, Mabrouka, holds dual meaning, it may refer to the name…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hans Makart’s Richard III Courting Lady Anne, with Footnotes, #99
Estimated at 15,000 – 20,000 GBP in December 2022Richard of Gloucester, the brother of King Edward IV, is determined to gain the crown of England for himself, no matter what. His plot begins as he romantically pursues Lady Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick and a widow. He woos her as she accompanies the…
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01 Religious Icon, Follower of Joos van Cleve’s Virgin and Child, with footnotes #47
Estimate for 15,000 – 20,000 EUR in November 2022 In the tradition of small paintings kept in the private sphere, our Virgin and Child was dedicated to private devotion. In the tradition of Gérard David, the models circulated and spread widely in Flanders throughout thesixteenth century. More on this Icon Virgin and Child or Madonna and Child or…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s Pharaoh’s Daughter, with Footnotes, #184
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in July 2016 Pharaoh’s Daughter appears to depict the un-named heroine of Exodus who discovered the infant Moses among the bulrushes when she was fetching water from the Nile. It was a popular subject in the nineteenth century and the most famous depiction of her was painted by Lawrence…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Titian’s portrait of Roxelana (Haseki Hurrem Sultan, with Footnotes #150
Estimated for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in October 2022Known 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 in the slave markets of Constantinople and entered the harem of Sultan Süleyman I (‘The…
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11 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Wenda Parkinson, Model, Traveler and Author, with Footnotes. #148
Wenda Rogerson was born in 1923. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in her teens. In 1946, she was appearing in a play at The Arts Theatre Club when she was spotted by photographer Cecil Beaton… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Friedrich Fehr’s Nuns Gathering Flowers, with Footnotes – #52
Estimated for 22,500 USD in April 2025Friedrich Fehr first attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (1878–84), where he studied under Alexander Strahuber and Ludwig Von Lofftz. In 1885, Fehr was awarded the prestigious Martin von Wagner Foundation scholarship, which enabled him to live and study for five years in Italy. In 1890, Fehr returned to Germany,…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Jean Veber’s Dynamis, with footnotes #237
Dynamis is one of Veber’s most striking works: Industry, embodied by a demonic woman, takes visible pleasure in crushing the workers who serve her… Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Vasily Dmitrievich Poleno’s The Herzegovian on lookout, with Footnotes #147
Sold for $300,000 USD in Nov 2019 In 1876, Serbia and Montenegro, joined by Bosnian and Herzegovinian rebels, declared war on Turkey. These events produced a stormy response in Russian society when many Russian cultural and scientific persons of note expressed strong public support for the Balkan people. Among them were the writers Vsevolod Garshin,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Oxer’ s The Book Of Ravishment, with Footnotes. #146
Ravished is a touching and often funny Beauty and the Beast story set in Regency England. It is many reader’s favorite Amanda Quick novel. William Joseph Oxer B.A. Hons. (Wrwk) F. R.S.A. is a passionate artist driven by traditional ideas of how beauty should be represented, William formed the intellectual basis to his work under the tutelage…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Henry Fromuth’s Storm Sailing, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $3,000 USD in Jun 2022 Concarneau is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a…
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