Art Blog: November 2024

01 Work, The Art of War, Kent Monkman's Welcoming the Newcomers, with Footnotes

Kent Monkman (Cree, b. 1965)

Welcoming the Newcomers, c. 2019

Acrylic on canvas

132 x 264 in. (335.28 x 670.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The truism that (art) history is written by the victors has a particular relevance to the narratives and images created during the heyday of European colonial empires in the Americas. Sculptures and paintings made from the beginning of contact through to the twentieth century show Indigenous North Americans as figures who are destined to fade out of history. Kent Monkman’s mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) turns these stereotypical and romanticized images on their heads by confronting the viewer with a counter-narrative of the past, present, and future of Indigenous-settler relationships. More on this painting

Kent Monkman, The Order of Canada, (born 13 November 1965) is a Canadian First Nations artist of Cree ancestry. He is a member of the Fisher River band situated in Manitoba's Interlake Region. Monkman lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

He works in painting, film/video, and installation. In the early 2000s, Monkman developed his gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. He has had many solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has achieved international recognition for colourful and richly detailed works that combine genre conventions to recast historical narrative. More on Kent Monkman

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01 Work, Jan Sluijters Junior's Cairo Market in Centrum , with footnotes

Jan Sluijters Junior (Netherlands, 1914 - 2005)

Cairo Market in Centrum

Oil on canvas

22 x 30 inches / 55 x 76 cm

Private collection

Estimated for Estimate $2,700-$3,400 in Jun 2023

Traffic congestion is a serious problem in Cairo with large and adverse effects on both the quality of life and the economy. In addition to the time wasted standing still in traffic, time that could be put to more productive uses, congestion results in unnecessary fuel consumption, causes additional wear and tear on vehicles, increases harmful emissions lowering air quality, increases the costs of transport for business... More on Cairo Traffic Congestion

Jan Sluijters Jr. was son of Jan Sluijters Sr. and Greet van Cooten, had been familiar with painting from an early age through the profession of his father. He was educated at the Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijs and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and he specilalized in painting, drawing and watercolouring of cityscapes, still lifes and especially landscapes. His colourful and expressive impressionism is somewhat reminiscent of his father's. The artist lived and worked in Amsterdam and from 1945 in Baambrugge. He was a member of the Amsterdam painting associations. More on Jan Sluijters Jr.

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03 Works, The amorous game, Edward Portielje's Courtships, with Footnotes, #97

Edward Portielje (1861- 1949)

Courtship

Oil on panel

16in x 12.5in

Private collection

Estimated for $4,000 USD - $6,000 USD in Mar 2023

Signed in the lower left. Depicting a young woman knitting next to an open window as a fisherman peers in for a conversation.

Edward Portielje (1861- 1949)

Courting

Oil on panel

l. 14.96 inch X H. 18.11 inch

Private collection

Estimated for $4,000 USD - $6,000 USD in Mar 2023

In this painting we can see a young woman being courted by a young fisherman. The woman is wearing traditional Zeeland clothing that is often seen in Portielje’s paintings. The man is dressed in a white shirt and blue vest, wearing a basket on his back. He’s softly holding the hand of the woman, while grabbing her shoulder. His actions are making the woman blush, while she is looking away from her suitor. More on this painting

Edward Portielje (1861- 1949)

The Declaration

Oil on panel

46 x 35.5 cm

Private collection

Edward Antoon Portielje (8 February 1861, Antwerp - 18 December 1949, Antwerp) was a Belgian genre painter.

His first art lessons came from his father. Next, he attended the Royal Atheneum [nl] and, from 1873, took after-school classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, with Edward Dujardin. From 1877 to 1881, he was a full-time student there, under the tutelage of Polydore Beaufaux, Charles Verlat and Nicaise de Keyser.

Genre scenes were his speciality, with an occasional portrait or seascape. Much of his inspiration came from the fishing communities in Zeeland. Many of his works are series of similar interior scenes, created according to the wishes of his agents, Albert D'Huyvetter [nl] and Guillaume Campo (1880-1952). They generally consist of a room with a sunny window, occupied by women in traditional costume, engaged in some daily activity. These paintings were very popular; selling throughout Europe and the United States.

In 1894, he worked together with Edouard de Jans and Joseph Dierickx to create murals for the Exposition Internationale d'Anvers. More on Edward Antoon Portielje

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03 Works , Pal Fried's Spanish Dancers, with footnotes

Pal Fried (Hungarian/American, 1893 - 1976)

Fandango

Oil on canvas

29 - 1/2" x 23 - 1/2"

Private collection

Sold for $1,845 in Jun 2013

Fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced.

Pal Fried (Hungarian/American, 1893 - 1976)

Spanish Dancers

Oil on canvas

28 3/4" x 22 3/4" 2"

Private collection

Sold for $300.00 in Feb 2024

Pal Fried (Hungarian/American, 1893 - 1976)

Spanish Dancers #2

Oil on canvas

28 3/4" x 22 3/4" 2"

Private collection

Sold for $800 USD in Jan 2022

Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist best known for his eroticized paintings of female dancers and nudes.

Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas, dancers and circus performers.

Fried emigrated to the United States in 1946 after World War II, where he taught at the New York Academy of Art. He prepared portraits of American celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. Through his work in portraiture, he gained considerable financial success.

He worked in oils and pastels and experimented with light and movement. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and while his subjects were primarily female, he also painted Paris, seascapes, cowboys and landscapes of the American West as well as Orientalist subject matter. He signed his paintings, as is usual in Hungarian, with his surname first as "Fried Pál". At times, this particular artist would make several, almost identical versions of the same oil painting, except he would use slightly different facial expressions and/or would try different colour schemes. More on Pál Fried

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01 Work, The amorous game, Berthold Woltze's The annoying cavalier, with Footnotes, #96

Berthold Woltze (1829–1896)

The troublesome cavalier/ The Irritating Gentleman, c. 1874

Oil on canvas

height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 57 cm (22.4 in)

Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin

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 hair circle, and wears a pair of mostly black gloves, while her black hat sits beside her; she is holding a maroon coin purse and a white handkerchief.

The young woman has suffered a recent bereavement, and may even be travelling back after a funeral. She looks likely that she has just lost her last parent, and is now living alone, and prey to the likes of this annoying and abusive man. More on this painting

Berthold Woltze (born 24 August 1829 in Havelberg; died 29 November 1896 in Weimar) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator.

Berthold Woltze was a professor at Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School. In the period from 1871 to 1878 he published numerous oworks in the Gartenlaube newspaper. One of his most famous works is Der lästige Kavalier, translated as "The Irritating Gentleman" or "The Annoying Cavalier."

He is the father of the architectural painter Peter Woltze (1860–1925). More on Berthold Woltze

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01 Work, The amorous game, Henry Raleigh's Tea Time, with Footnotes, #92

Henry Raleigh (American, 1880-1944)

Tea Time, c. 1927

Watercolor on paper

16 x 21-1/2 inches (40.6 x 54.6 cm)

Private collection

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 for prominent magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Harper’s Bazaar, he created several posters to promote the efforts of World War I.

Raleigh’s career spanned 25 years and during this time he completed over 20,000 illustrations. He even remained active through the Great Depression and was considered a heavy-hitter during the Golden Age of illustration. Raleigh’s career ended in the 1940s and it is believed that he found it difficult to adapt to the changing social norms of the late 1930s. More on Henry Raleigh

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01 Work The Artist's Studio, Eduardo Sívori's In the workshop, with Footnotes #90

Eduardo Sívori (1847–1918

In the workshop, c. 1891

Oil on canvas

132 x 90 cm,

National Museum of Fine Arts

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 ateliers. Returning to Buenos Aires, the experience drew him to other local painters, including his brother, Alejandro, José Aguyari and Eduardo Schiaffino, who would later become one of Argentina's best-known symbolist painters. Together, they founded the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1875, an important early milestone in the development of artisan guilds in Argentina.

He returned to Paris in 1882, eventually earning an apprenticeship in the prestigious Jean Paul Laurens atelier, following which he created El despertar de la criada ("Waking of the Servant"), perhaps his best remembered work. Increasingly renowned, his travels took him to the United States, where he was awarded a second gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition of 1884 for Dolce far niente.

Sívori thereafter focused his efforts on commercial art, creating portraits and landscapes for clients. His bucolic landscapes soon earned him renown as the "portraiteur of the pampas." These relationships helped result in the designation of his guild as an official entity within the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, of which he was named president in 1910. Eduardo Sívori died in Buenos Aires in 1918 at the age of seventy, and was honored posthumously with the naming of the new Eduardo Sívori Museum in his honor, in 1938. More on Eduardo Sívori

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05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley's perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87

Walter Langley, R.I. (1852-1922)

Waiting for the Boats, c. 1885

Pencil and watercolour

16 x 47 in. (42 x 119.5 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 109,300 in June 1999

The quayside by the seawall in the last few moments of leisure when they are able to share news, knit and read letters from relatives as they await the arrival of the herring fleet that has been away at sea and is returning with the day's catch. All is still and peaceful before these women's strenuous daily work begins and the women have to unload and clean the fish. The youngest of the women appears to be concerned about the arrival of the boats, perhaps nervous that not all of them will return; many men were killed in ocean storms. The anxious expression on her young face is in contrast to the weather-beaten skin of the older women who are used to sitting and waiting for the boats. More on this painting

Walter Langley (1852–1922)

In a Cornish Fishing Village – Departure of the Fleet for the North, c. 1886

Watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on paper

121.9x926 mm

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

This painting is the first in a series of three works, depicting the perils of fishing life. In this work, the fleet is watched by villagers as it heads off to the fishing grounds.

Walter Langley (1852–1922)

Disaster! Scene in a Cornish fishing village, c 1889

Watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on paper

121.9x76.5 cms

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home. Like many of his paintings this watercolour is now in the possession of the City Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, Langley's home town, More on this painting

Walter Langley (1852–1922)

Among the Missing – Scene in a Cornish Fishing Village, c. 1884

Watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on paper

H 118 x W 85 cm

Penlee House Gallery & Museum

This watercolour is the third in a series of three works showing the perils of fishing life. On the wall of the post office is a list of all the men who have been lost at sea. This scene is still one that is all too frequent amidst fishing communities today. More on this painting

Walter Langley (1852–1922)

Sketch for 'Among the Missing – Scene in a Cornish Fishing Village'

Watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on paper

H 20.2 x W 11 cm

Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Walter Langley, RI (1852–1922), often described as a pioneer of the Newlyn artists in Cornwall, was born in Birmingham in 1852. His father was a tailor, and the typically large Victorian family lived in poor circumstances. The boy attended a mission school there, taking evening classes at Birmingham School of Design from the age of ten, and becoming an apprentice to a commercial lithographer in Birmingham while still attending classes. His life might have gone on like that, only a few steps further up the social ladder than his father's. But, on his own initiative, Langley picked up watercolour painting, and showed three of his watercolours at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1873. A scholarship to the National Art Training Schools of South Kensington followed, to study decorative design, and, after another spell as a lithographer, Langley set out on his independent career as an artist.

Although he was very active in Birmingham, where he and others founded the Birmingham Art Circle, Langley was attracted by the trend established in France, to paint villagers among scenes of daily life in rural or coastal communities. In 1880, he and Henry Martin Pope (1843-1908), a fellow-founder member of the Art Circle, visited Newlyn in Cornwall, which was then beginning to have something of a reputation as an artist's colony. When Langley decided to move there with his young family in 1882, he became the first artist of any note to do so. He retained his ties with Birmingham, but eventually settled there permanently. His connection was confirmed when, after the death of his first wife, he married a Cornish woman in 1897. He died in Penzance in 1922, a well-known artist — Jacqueline Banerjee

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1 Painting, Camille Hilaire's The clown Auguste on the track, with footnotes

Camille Hilaire

The clown Auguste on the track, c. 1974

Watercolor and gouache

53 x 36.5cm

Private collection

For sale for 1850 € in Nov 2024

The Auguste clown character-type is often an anarchist, a joker, or a fool. He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface. Classically the whiteface character instructs the Auguste character to perform his bidding. The Auguste has a hard time performing a given task, which leads to funny situations. Sometimes the Auguste plays the role of an anarchist and purposefully has trouble following the whiteface's directions. Sometimes the Auguste is confused or is foolish and makes errors less deliberately. More on The Auguste clown

Camille Hilaire was born on August 2, 1916 in France. Hillaire began painting from a young age. At fifteen he discovered the works of Albrecht Dürer in his city's library and started making copies. His drawings, because they were hung up in a bookshop, drew the attention of the director of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It was due to this Hilaire enrolled at Beaux-Arts. With the help of a scholarship Hilaire travelled around Spain and Italy and was greatly influenced by the art he found there. In 1942 he came under the tutelage of André L'hote, a renowned Cubist artist. Hilaire's paintings do reveal a certain influence from Cubism, but they lack the rigidity of the early years of the movement. His first exhibition was held in Paris, 1951; after this he exhibited at international art faire in Geneva, Cannes and Deauville. Hilaire's compositions can be described as subtle and his paintings display a sense of calm in their transition of patterns and elements. His nudes were remarkable as well and contain a provocative grace. Nowadays a great number of monographs can be found to be devoted to him, along with films and documentaries. Hilaire left a large body of work and a strong influence on French painters of the mid-twentieth century behind, when he passed away in 2004. More on Camille Hilaire

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