Tag: Paintings
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01 Marine Art, James Browning Wyeth’s Surf Watchers, with Footnotes #308
Sold for 151,200 USD in May 2022 Surf Watchers depicts the artist’s wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, leaning out of the Dutch door at the front of their house on Monhegan Island in Maine, where the work was painted. More on this painting James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Henry Guillaume Schlesinger’s Dangerous liaisons, with Footnotes #85
Sold for GBP 13,700 in Jan 2008The present work is a charming example of the subjects favoured by Schlesinger. The scene depicts a group of fashionable figures engaged in narrative interaction surrounding a print. The two ladies turn away in modesty and giggle at its content, while the gentleman leans over them. The elegant interior,…
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, by Louis-Jean-Baptiste Igout from the 1800’s, with footnotes #203
Artists throughout history have been drawn to the human form. Whether it is to compel, to shock or seduce, these artworks remain one of the central subjects of art history while intimately charting the socio-political developments of our many cultures — both old and new… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Elisée Maclet’s Vue de Montmartre, with footnotes, Part 89
Estimated for £1,000 – £1,500 in July 2022 With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Karl Ferdinand Sohn’s Atoning Magdalene, with Footnotes #205
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €10,000 EUR in May 2015 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is…
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02 Paintings, Irish deities, Henry Meynell Rheam’s La Belle Dame sans Merci (Banshee), with footnotes # 43
The subject is a fairy who seduces a knight with her eyes and singing voice, before lulling him to sleep and abandoning him on an empty hillside. The present watercolour depicts the moment when the fading knight dreams of the fairy he saw across the meadow, and his own initial approach to her on horseback……
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01 Marine Painting, John Jack Robert Charles Spurling’s P. & O. Steamship ‘Soudan, with Footnotes #288
Soudan SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 6,677 tons built in 1931 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow, for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company as the SOUDAN SS. She was powered by a Steam turbine with Bauer Wach exhaust system. Soudan struck a mine and sank off Cape Town. The mine was probably…
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4 Works, Contemporary interpretations of Olympian Deities, Thomas Saliot’s Mermaids, with Footnotes #7
In Greek mythology, the Naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in…
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01 Work, Adrienne, Antwerp School’s A painter in his studio, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023 The tradition of depicting painters, dealers, and collectors in interiors, surrounded by both identifiable and anonymous paintings from various countries and centuries, was firmly established in Flanders by the first quarter of the 17th century. The present example has been previously thought to be a work by Frans…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Henry Le Jeune’s Thy Will be Done, with Footnotes #201
Sold for GBP 8,820 in Jul 2022 This depiction of the Agony in the Garden, on the Mount of Olives, in which, between the Last Supper and his arrest, Christ retired to pray. ‘Agony’ in this context derives from the Greek meaning a contest, and Le Jeune, through juxtaposing the solitary figure of Christ against the…
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01 Marine Painting, Thomas Whitcombe’s Action between Aigle & Sirene, with Footnotes #287
This painting is unusual in depicting ships engaged in battle while carrying full sails, including their studded sails. It was difficult to man the guns and set the full complement of sails. Full sail was needed here because the ships were engaged in a chase. Aigle (a 5th rate ship with 36 guns; under the command of…
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09 works, Today, August 29th, is The Beheading of John the Baptist day, his story illustrated #241
Following the Baptism of the Jesus, Saint John the Baptist was locked up in prison by Herod Antipas, ruler of one fourth of the Holy Land, and governor of Galilee. Herod Antipas received Galilee from the emperor Augustus… Please follow link for full post
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Bert Stern with Kate Moss in 2009, with footnotes #202
Bert Stern was one of the leading photographers of the 1950s and 1960s; he redefined fashion photography with his clean and direct style… Please follow link for full post
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29 Photographs, CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART – Photography from the Bible, with footnotes #3
How can it be represented Christ today? How can his life, his actions and his teachings to be communicated through modern means, words we know and that can instill a sense of immediacy? In other words, how can you convey that sense of eternity as it is contained in the words of the Gospel: “I…
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15 Paintings, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #2
Artists include: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, French School, Charles Joseph Natoire, FRANCKEN, FRANS II, School of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Giorgione, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne and Carl von Marr. Please follow link for full post
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14 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes #4
Artists include: Laila Shawa, Khadiga Riad, Hamed Owais, Paul Guiragossian, Hossein Khosrojerdi, Hassan Hajjaj, Georges Hanna Sabbagh, Lalla Essaydi, Mahmoud Said and Sohrab Sepehri. Please follow link for full post
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