Tag: PORTRAITOFALADY
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francesco Furini’s Lady with a tambourine, the Muse Erato, with Footnotes #228
Sold for 47,880 GBP in July 2022 In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses, which were inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. The name would mean “desired” or “lovely”, if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his…
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06 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, FATIMA, Mrs. Paul W. Bartlett and Queen Kiya, with Footnotes #19
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (14 March 1834–24 February 1912) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1834… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sylvia Ji’s Stella (Blue Stoya), with Footnotes #217
Stoya was born as Jessica Stoyadinovich. She was born on 15 June 1986. Stoya was born to a Scottish father and Serbian mother. Stoya was her nickname before becoming a pornstar. It was the shortened version of her Grandmother’s name. She is from Wilmington, North Carolina. She wanted to become a dancer. Stoya was homeschooled.…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, David Drebin’s Monte Carlo Flasher, and 5 other works with Footnotes #214
Love stories and landscapes are at the foundation of David Drebin’s panoramas, portraits, and neon sculptures. His monograph Love and Other Stories (2007) features solitary women in urban tableaux — high-rise apartments buildings and terraces, freeway overpasses and hotel rooms… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hocine Ziani’s The Queen Tin Hinan, with Footnotes #212
Tin Hinan was a 4th-century Tuareg queen. Her monumental tomb is located in the Sahara, at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. Tin Hinan is sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Hoggar”. The name literally means “woman of the tents”, but may be metaphorically translated as “mother of us all”. According to the stories…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s The Market Woman, with Footnotes #212
Sold for HK$1,011,000 in May 2022 The Market Woman depicts a busy market scene where a group of women are engaged in a flurry of activities. Four women are seen sitting on a pavement, hawking their wares, which in this case appear to be poultry. Another lady in white soon joins in and offers her greeting.…
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Julio Romero De Torres’ muse María Teresa Lopez González, with Footnotes #211
María Teresa Lopez González, born in Argentina, she moved with her family to Julio Romero de Torres’s native Córdoba after World War I. There she first sat for the painter aged just 14 years old, and became the artist’s favourite model… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hans Canon’s Kitchen piece with maid, with Footnotes #210
A young woman stretches for a wicker basket with turnips, turned her head in three-quarter profile towards the viewer. The flowy dress reveals her muscular body and glowing skin. In front of her in an artful arrangement are fish, game and various vegetables. More on this painting Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HUBLIN Émile Auguste’s Jeune paysanne, with Footnotes #206
Emile-Auguste Hublin was a painter best-known for peasant genre scenes rendered in a Neoclassical style, Emile Auguste Hublin (1830–c. 1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou. In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chen Yifei’s Banquet, with Footnotes #203
Sold for 54,520,000 HKD in April 2022 Banquet is a masterwork from Chen Yifei’s creative peak. It represents Chinese art’s rebirth. This image of musical accompaniment to a banquet embodies the essence of late 20th-century nostalgia and is enveloped in a traditional, elegant Eastern air. Chen Yifei (April 12, 1946 – April 10, 2005) was a renowned…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s Jackfruit Seller and ,Fish Vendor, Bali, with Footnotes #202
Garbed in traditional attire and sarongs embellished with floral and batik patterns, the subjects represent their nation… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, Portrait of a Lady, Harold Von Schmidt’s Friendly Persuasion, with Footnotes
Sold for $1,300 USD in April 2017 The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. The book is about a Quaker farming family living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana along “the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sigismund de Ivanowski’s Window Shoppers, with Footnotes #201
Sold for 10,625 USD in June 2017The subject matter of the present work celebrates some of the important cultural themes of the Gilded Age: the growth of a consumerist culture and the advent of department stores (Macy’s moved into its current, Beaux-Arts style building on the corner of 34th street in Manhattan in 1902), as well…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Honourable John Maler Collier’s Mrs Dalahaye, with Footnotes #200
Sold for £17,500 in March 2017 Ina De La Haye was a Russian born actress and singer. Born in St, Petersburg in 1906, Fedosia and her younger brother Ilya fled Russia following the Revolution. By 1921 she was working as a correspondent for a journal in Riga, and by 1924 she had entered London society. Fedosia…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis Cotes’ Portrait of the Duchess of Marlborough, with Footnotes #199
Sold for 15,120 GBP in April 2022 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain. By the time Anne became…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Mary Villiers as Saint Agnes, with Footnotes #198
Sold for £5,100 in April 2022 The original painting (in the Royal Collection, Windsor) was presumably painted for Charles I, who gave the sitter away at her wedding to the Duke of Lennox in 1637. It has been remarked that she looks older than 15, the age she would have been in the year of her…
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