Tag: Paintings
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Valery Tsarikovsky’s Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 97
Estimate at $400-$600 in June 2023 The Pont Neuf (“New Bridge”) is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known…
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13 Works, Today, March 18th. is artist Josephine Hopper’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #076
Josephine Verstille Hopper (née Nivison; March 18, 1883 — March 6, 1968) was an American painter who studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and won the Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship. She was the wife of Edward Hopper… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artist; Paul Emil Jacobs’ the pasha’s favourite, with footnotes, #99
Sold for 16,250 EUR in October 2014 The painting depicts Ali Pasha of Ioannina and Kira Vassiliki; portraying an intimate moment full of tenderness and love. Kira, the daughter of Kitzos Kontaxis, joined the Ali Pasha’s harem at a young age. With her beauty and loyalty she won the love and favour of the powerful tyrant. She kept her…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Francesco Bergamini’s Life of the Party, with Footnotes #97
Sold for 3,528 USD in October 2021 Francesco Bergamini (1851 – 1900) was an Italian painter who specialised in producing genre scenes for an international audience. Born in Rome, he trained at the National academy where he was taught by Giuseppe Diotti, a traditional artist who still often received fresco commissions. Francesco received a wide-ranging pictorial education religious…
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82 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s “The Disasters of War Series”, with Footnotes
Between 1808 and 1814 the Spanish, the Portuguese and English fought Napoleon’s France in the Peninsular War. In the first part of Goya’s series we witness the scenes of war… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting – Robert Russ’ Boats in the Mist, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $1,700 USD in June 2022 Robert Russ (1847, Vienna-1922, Vienna) was best known for watercolors, architectural views, urban genre scenes and landscapes with figures painted in the pure, classical style. Russ was born into a family of artists – both his father, Franz Russ and brother, the portrait and genre painter Franz Seraph Russ.…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Jacob de Backer’s Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, with footnotes #38
Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and considered in Greek myth to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city,…
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02 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Pomegranate Seller, with footnotes, #97
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Donato Creti’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes – #211
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 named more than most of the apostles. Based on…
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08 Works, Today, March 2nd. is artist François Paul Auguste Quinsac’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #061
François Paul Auguste Quinsac (2 March 1858, Bordeaux — May 1929, Bordeaux) was a French painter of the French School known as Academic art, a specialist in mythological and allegorical subjects… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, March 2nd, is Holy Martyr Euthalia’s Day, With Footnotes – #60
The Holy Martyr Euthalia was from Sicily, and she had a mother who also was named Euthalia who suffered from a flow of blood. One night the mother beheld the three Holy Martyrs Alphius, Philadelphos and Cyprinus in a dream, who said to her… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Le Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 85
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 GBP in December 2009 Here, Béraud captures the spirit of the moment, as workers, bankers in top hats, bakers, an upholsterer carrying a chair on his head, and cabbies make their way across Paris’s oldest bridge, even in Béraud’s day a listed monument. Shoppers flock to the capital’s recently opened retail…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Firelei Báez’s Patterns of Resistance, and Frank Angels’ The Souvenir of Paris, with Footnotes
Works dedicated to the marches and protests that broke out across Europe and North America… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir John Everett Millais’ The Order of Release, with Footnotes
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) was defeated by the English at Culloden on 16 April 1746 and many of his supporters were imprisoned. The subject of this picture is the release of one of these Jacobite rebels from prison. The rebel’s wife, supporting their small child and comforting her exhausted, wounded husband, hands an order of release…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Nicholas Takis’ Harbor Scene, with Footnotes, #325
Sold for $225 in Jun 2022 “Although Nicholas Takis enjoyed all of the luxuries of a millionaire’s son only a few years ago and today is selling his paintings for what he can get, the change in his fortune doesn’t bother him. He’s as “happy now as I ever was,” Evening Journal, 1930Nicholas Takis (1903-64) was born in…
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03 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Nazir Nabaa’s Untitled (Three Ladies), with Footnotes, #72
Sold for USD 87,500 in Mar 2017 As these women are set against intricately and highly rich ornamented backgrounds with arabesque geometric designs, Nabaa references the highly decorated interiors of old Damascene homes whilst simultaneously paying homage to the passage of time. Heavily adorned in beautiful Levantine elements. their beautifully intricate dresses also incorporate arabesque embroidery…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Aldridge’s Grand Canal, Early Morning, with footnotes. #127
Sold for £3,812.50 in May 2020 John Aldridge was educated at Uppingham School and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. From 1928 to 1933 he lived in London, making frequent visits to Holland, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. In 1933 he moved to Essex, settling in Great Barfield. At the time he was one of a…
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02 paintings, The amorous game, Hayv Kahraman’s Persian Couple 1 & 2, with Footnotes #96
Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist born in 1981. At the age of 11, her family left Baghdad during the Gulf War and settled in Sweden for several years, where her status of refugee became a catalytic experience for her artistic practic… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, February 21st is Saint Zachariah’s Day, With Footnotes – #51
Saint Zachariah, was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Church of Jerusalem from 609 to 632. Patr. Zacharias spent most of his patriarchate as a prisoner of the Persian King Chozroes… Please follow link for full post
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