Tag: Sensual
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01 Works The amorous game, Potentially Gillis Mostaert’s Couple in love on a stormy sea, with Footnotes #98
This painting was Estimate at €800 – €1,200 in May 2023 Gillis Mostaert the Elder (27 or 28 November 1528 – 28 December 1598) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century. He was a versatile artist who worked in various genres including landscape, genre and history painting.…
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04 Works, The amorous game, Cornelis Bega’s Peasants in a Tavern, with Footnotes, #98
He was a student of Adriaen van Ostade, and produced genre scenes of similar subjects, typically groups of a few peasant figures, often in interior settings… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson’s Melusina, with footnotes #226
Melusina was a mythical figure from European folklore, a water nymph who is often portrayed with the upper body of a beautiful woman but the lower that of a fish, or serpent. The most complete retelling of what was probably a more ancient legend, dates from the end of the 14th century and recounts how Melusina…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, David Nicholson’s Mousetrap, with footnotes #221
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson David Nicholson (Canadian, born 1970). Although the style and colour palette of the paintings and…
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03 Works, The amorous game, Bruce Weber’s Courtships, with Footnotes, #97
In these paintings we can see a young woman being courted by a young man. The woman is wearing traditional Zeeland clothing that is often seen in Portielje’s paintings…. Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The amorous game, Berthold Woltze’s The annoying cavalier, with Footnotes, #96
The painting is set in a railway carriage, where there are two men and a young woman. She is dressed completely in black, and stares towards the viewer with tears in her eyes. The young woman is dressed in a black cloak over a black button-up shirt and a black skirt. She has a black…
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01 Work, The amorous game, Henry Raleigh’s Tea Time, with Footnotes, #92
Sold for $2,312.50 in Apr 25, 2023 Henry Raleigh was an American illustrator, active between 1910-1940. He created illustrations for many well-known authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and H.G. Wells. Raleigh started as a newspaper artist but became widely respected and sought after for his unique and distinct style of illustration. In addition to producing work…
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01 Work The Artist’s Studio, Eduardo Sívori’s In the workshop, with Footnotes #90
Eduardo Sívori (October 13, 1847 – June 5, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country’s first realist painter. Sívori ha arbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on a business trip to Paris in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Edward Henry Weston’s Nudes, with footnotes #216
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 — January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers” and “one of the masters of 20th century photography.”… Please follow link for full post
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, William Claxton’s Peggy Moffitt in Rudolf “Rudi” Gernreich’s” TOPLESS SWIMSUIT, with footnotes #219
Gernreich collaborated with Moffitt and her husband, photographer William Claxton. The three became “a dynamic and inseparable trio… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, William Oxer’s Unfolding Her Wings, with Footnotes #102
For Sale at C$2,864 in April 2024 “William Oxer is not merely a painter; he is a distinctive sensibility, with a poetic vision he explores in many media. His art is affirmative, evocative and forgiving…” Professor Sir Roger Scruton “William Oxer’s paintings represent a strikingly fresh current in contemporary art. His work is experimental, and he…
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, The Art of War, Felix Labisse’s Alma is wounded, with footnotes #220 2
The battlefield lay silent, the echoes of clashing steel and cries of warriors now replaced by an eerie stillness. Alma, once a fierce figure clad in gleaming armor, staggered amidst the remnants of the clash… Please follow link for full post
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY’s Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217
Kiki, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Maurice Brianchon’d c. NU AUX BAS ROUGES, with footnotes #218
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in December 2018 Maurice Brianchon, (1899-1979) French, is known as one of the Painters of Poetic Reality. Brianchon attended É’cole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and moved to Spain shortly after to study the paintings of Spanish Masters. His early work is characterized by dynamic images of the theater, street scenes, and horse races…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Ruth Bernhard’s Symbiosis, with footnotes #215
Estimated for US$4,000 – US$6,000 in May 2020 Symbiosis, interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Her parents divorced when she was 2 years old…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fruta Prohibida, with footnotes #212
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adolf Humborg (Austrian, 1847-1913), with Footnotes #88
Sold for USD 5,520 in Oct 1998 Adolf Humborg (January 18, 1847 Oraviţa – April 14, 1921 Munich) was an Austrian painter. Humborg studied at the Art Academy in Vienna between 1867 and 1872. He then completed his studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich, where he attended the class of professor Alexander von Wagner (1838-1904).…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Simon Buret’s The Porous Lights, with Footnotes #87
Sold for 4,445 EUR in February 2023 Simon Buret grew up in Paris, and studied acting at Acting International. His acting career began in 2005, with brief appearances in Les Chevaliers du ciel and Dans tes rêves. At the same time, Simon meets Olivier Coursier with whom he creates the music group AaRON, in which he is…
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05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Hedy Lamarr in kstase and White Cargo, with footnotes # 23
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), Hedy Lamarr fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris… Please follow link for full post
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Iranian Artist Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126
“The title gives a great starting insight into what is going on here, but I soon found that it only scratched the surface…” Please follow link for full post
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