04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Jurij Frey's Cafe, Paris, with footnotes, Part 89

Jurij Frey, Germany

Café, Paris

Oil on Canvas

 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

Private collection

For Sale for $4,763USD in Nov 2025

Parisian cafés are a type of café found mainly in Paris, where they can serve as a meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and a place to relax or to refuel for Parisian citizens.

Jurij Frey, Germany

Café, Paris

Oil on Canvas

 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

Private collection

For Sale $4,710USD in Nov 2025

Typical Parisian cafés are not coffee shops, instead generally coming with a complete kitchen offering a restaurant menu with meals for any time of the day. Many also feature a full bar and even a wine selection. Among the drinks customarily served are the grand crème (large cup of white coffee), wine by the glass, beer (un demi, half a pint, or une pression, a glass of draught beer), un pastis (made with aniseed flavour spirit, usually named by a brand like Ricard, 51, Pernod), and un espresso, or un express (a small cup of black coffee). [2] In many cases, the café sometimes doubles as a bureau de tabac, a tobacco shop that sells a wide variety of merchandise, including metro tickets and prepaid phone cards.

Jurij Frey, Germany

Café, Paris

Oil on Canvas

 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

Private collection

Some of the most recognizable Paris cafés include Café de la Paix, Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, Café de la Rotonde, La Coupole, Fouquet's, Le Deauville, as well as a new wave represented by Café Beaubourg and Drugstore Publicis. The oldest still in operation is the Café Procope, which opened in 1686. More on Parisian Cafe

Jurij Frey, Germany

So So, Painting

Oil on Canvas

19.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

Private collection

The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always allowing haziness, an incertitude in the contours of shapes to appear, symbolising the doubt present in each of us.

Because it is indeed the modern man, who lives in the city and works, who populates Jurij Frey’s paintings. Exploring the contrast between speed, acceleration of urban life and personal, intimate searching for serenity, peace, the need for nature, light, wandering and large spaces, the artist points out the contradictions of the contemporary world.

Capturing these subtle emotions through lively and hot-headed painting, Jurij Frey gives himself over to a contrasted practice between big brush strokes that are wide and almost clumsy, and nimbleness, the fleetingness of the moment celebrated in his paintings by the light. Inspired first of all by the city he lives in, he draws on the marks that history, architecture and traditions have left behind, that fight to prevail at the same time as they contain their breath to give way to Modern Times. More on Jurij Frey

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02 paintings, The amorous game, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Welcome Footsteps and A Foregone Conclusion, with Footnotes #103

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836 - 1912

Welcome Footsteps (The Well-Known Footsteps), c. November 1883

Oil on panel

16 by 21¾ in.; 40.6 by 55.2 cm

Private collection

Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023

Welcome Footsteps, also known as Well-Known Footsteps, was painted in November 1883 and debuted the following month at the inaugural exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colour, founded in London the previous year. The present painting relates to a later painting, A Forgone Conclusion, commissioned by Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), founder of the Tate Gallery (See Below) where it remains, as a wedding present for his second wife, Amy Hislop (1850-1919). More on this painting

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836–1912

A Foregone Conclusion, c. 1885

Oil paint on wood

311 × 229 mm

TATE BRITAIN

Set in the time of the early Roman Empire, Alma-Tadema depicts a man bringing an engagement ring to his girlfriend in the hope that she will become his fiancée. The expectant look of the lady and her attendant holding hands at the top of the stairs reveals that the result of his proposal will be ‘a foregone conclusion’. Barrow has examined many of Alma-Tadema’s courtship scenes in the light of Roman law and practice. During this period women of high birth often married while they were young for political alliance and social advantage. ‘Love interests’, Barrow remarked, ‘developed through the illicit acquisition of lovers after marriage’ (Barrow, p.102). It is unlikely, however, that Henry Tate, a self-made businessman, would have taken the painting to mean anything other than that which was clearly intended, a compliment to his wife’s affection. Amy Hislop, who was 31 years his junior, was married to Tate in 1885, the year of this painting. More on this painting

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.

Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art. More on Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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