01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud's Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with footnotes, Part 84

Jean Béraud (French, 1849–1936)
Champs-Élysées, c. 1880
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 18 in. (49.5 x 45cm.)
Private collection

Estimated for GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000 on Dec 2022

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres, cafés and luxury shops, as the finish of the Tour de France cycling race, as well as for its annual Bastille Day military parade. The name is French for the Elysian Fields, the place for dead heroes in Greek mythology. It is commonly regarded as the "most beautiful avenue in the whole world" More on the Champs-Élysées

Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 – October 4, 1935) was a French painter, noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. He was renowned in Paris society due to his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. He also painted religious subjects in a contemporary setting. Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian era of the "Belle Époque". More on Jean Béraud





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01 painting, The amorous game, Christoph Gertner's Mercenary Love, with Footnotes, #95

Christoph Gertner (German 1575/1580 – after 1623)
Mercenary Love
Oil on canvas
95 x 114 cm
Private collection

Sold for EUR 46,080.- in November 2022

The subject of matchmaking is a recurrent theme in North European painting. In the present painting the notion of a transaction is implicit and the painting appears to be an allegory of mercenary love. On the table are coins and wine which are emblematic of vice.

Christoph Gertner was probably born in Arnstadt, Thuringia, which is suggested by the letter ‘A’ bound into the monogram he commonly used: ‘CGA’ (see J. Zimmer in literature). It is assumed that he was in Prague, at the court of Rudolf II, around 1600. By 1604 he was court painter to Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, until 1621 when he left to work for the Protestant Archbishop of Brandenburg. Most of Gertner’s works are still in various institutions in the German city of Wolfenbüttel. More on Christoph Gertner




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01 painting, The amorous game, Marcus Stone's Sain et Sauf/ Safe and Sound, with Footnotes, #94

Marcus Stone, RA (British, 1840-1921)
Sain et Sauf/ Safe and Sound, c. 1875
Oil on panel
26.3 x 39.4cm (10 3/8 x 15 1/2in)
Private collection

Sold for £4,462.50 22 November 2022

The scene depicts the joyful moment when a French soldier returns home from battle to his beloved wife who is in bed after the birth of their child; hence both husband, wife and newborn are "safe and sound". Whilst he embraces his wife, his daughter points at her new sibling and the dog tries to get closer to his master. A copy of La Patrie lies on the bed symbolising the wife's patriotism and also indicating on a more human level her fruitless search for news of her husband. Although no specific battle or date is referred to this is most likely Stone's comment on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Many French artists such as James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot had fled the Paris Commune of 1871 and during the 1870s London had many French refugees to whom this picture would have appealed. More on this painting

Marcus Stone RA (4 July 1840 – 24 March 1921) was an English painter. Stone was born in London, and was educated at the Royal Academy.

Marcus Clayton Stone was the son of Frank Stone ARA. Marcus was trained by his father and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, before he was eighteen. A few years later he illustrated, with much success, books by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and other writers who were friends of his family.

Stone was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1877, and Academician in 1887. In his earlier pictures, he dealt much with historical incidents, but in his later work, he occupied himself chiefly with a particular type of dainty sentiment, treated with much charm, refinement and executive skill.

One of his canvases is in Tate. Most of his works have been engraved, and medals were awarded to him at exhibitions in all parts of the world. More on Marcus Stone




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2 Paintings by Théodore Géricault of The wounded Cuirassier, with footnotes

Théodore Géricault  (1791–1824)
The Wounded Cuirassier, c. 1814
Oil on canvas
height: 358 cm (11.7 ft); width: 294 cm (115.7 in)
Louvre Museum

Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers, discarding their lances and adopting the use of pistols as their primary weapon. In the later part of the 17th century the cuirassier lost his limb armour and subsequently wore only the cuirass (breastplate and backplate), and sometimes a helmet. By this time, the sword or sabre had become his primary weapon, with pistols relegated to a secondary function.

Cuirassiers achieved increased prominence during the Napoleonic Wars and were last fielded in the opening stages of World War I (1914-1918). A number of countries continue to use cuirassiers as ceremonial troops.

The French term cuirassier means "one with a cuirass", the breastplate armour which they wore. More on Cuirassiers

Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris)
A study for The wounded Cuirassier
oil on canvas
39.3 x 29.3cm (15 1/2 x 11 9/16in).
Private collection

The Wounded Cuirassier is an oil painting of a single anonymous soldier descending a slope with his nervous horse by Théodore Géricault. In this 1814 Salon entry, Géricault decided to turn away from scenes of heroism in favor of a subject that is on the losing side of the battle. On display in the aftermath of France's disastrous military campaign in Russia, this life-size painting captured the feeling of a nation in defeat. There are no visible wounds on the figure, and the title has sometimes been interpreted to refer to soldier's injured pride. The painting stood in stark contrast with Géricault's Charging Chasseur, as it didn't focus on glory or the spectacle of battle. More on this painting

Théodore Géricault, in full Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault, (born September 26, 1791, Rouen, France—died January 26, 1824, Paris), painter who exerted a seminal influence on the development of Romantic art in France. Géricault was a dandy and an avid horseman whose dramatic paintings reflect his flamboyant and passionate personality.

As a student, Géricault learned the traditions of English sporting art from the French painter Carle Vernet, and he developed a remarkable facility for capturing animal movement. He also mastered classicist figure construction and composition under the academician Pierre-Narcissse, Baron Guérin. Another student of Guérin, Eugène Delacroix, was profoundly influenced by Géricault, finding in his example a major point of departure for his own art. More on Théodore Géricault




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01 painting, The amorous game, Alexandre Marie Guillemin's Spinning a yarn, with Footnotes #93

Alexandre Marie Guillemin (French, 1817-1880)
Spinning a yarn
Oil on canvas
47 x 38.4cm (18 1/2 x 15 1/8in)
Private collection

This work was Sold for £1,100 on Nov 22, 2022

Alexandre Marie Guillemin was born in 1817 in Paris. He was a student of the prominent French painter Antoine Jean Gros. Guillemin was especially known as genre artist specializing in the themes from the lives of peasants and petit bourgeois from Brittany to Pyrenees, frequently captured in humorous settings.

From 1840 to 1879 he regularly exhibited at the Parisian Salon. In 1845 he received an exhibition medal, in 1869 he was awarded the Order of the Legion d'Honneur. Works of Alexandre Marie Guillemin can be viewed in museums worldwide such as the National Academy of Design, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal or the Hermitage, and Saint Petersburg. More on Alexandre Marie Guillemin




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01 painting, The amorous game, Hafidh Al Droubi's The Couple, with Footnotes #92

Hafidh Al Droubi (Iraqi, 1914-1991)
The Couple, c. 1976
Oil on canvas
25 x 347⁄8in. (63.5 x 88.5cm.)
Private collection

This work sold for GBP 30,240 on3 Nov 2022

Hafidh Al Droubi (1914-1991) was an Iraqi painter and draughtsman, noted for his Cubist paintings and for his approach to professionalising Iraqi art education in the early to mid 20th-century. He was a prolific painter, an important artist in the Pioneer generation, a key figure in the development of modernism in Iraq and a key figure in the development of early Iraqi art education.

Hafidh Al Droubi (also known as Hafez al-Droubi) was born Bab al-Sheikh in Baghdad in 1914. As a young student at the Bab Al-Sheikh Primary School, he was introduced to painting and drawing and learned the techniques of European academic art in terms of proportions, anatomy and perspective. 

In 1936, he received a scholarship to study in Rome, graduating from the Accademia Reale. Due to the outbreak of war, his studies were interrupted and he returned to Baghdad for a brief period, during which time he opened a free atelier in Baghdad, dedicated to giving aspiring artists access to studio space and resources for their practice. He served as the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad.

After the war, he returned to his art studies, enrolling at Goldsmiths College, London, and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950.

On his permanent return to Baghdad, he became very active in the formation and development of Iraq's arts community. He co-founded the first Iraqi Fine Art Society in 1941. In 1953, he formed the Impressionists art collective.

He was among the first group of teachers at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts, and went on to become Dean of the Iraqi Fine Arts Academy.

Although he was a prolific painter, he is mainly remembered for his contribution to art education; professionalising the art industry and developing a coherent pedagogy for the teaching of art in the early to mid-20th century. More on Hafidh Al Droubi




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10 Works, Bathers and Summer break, with footnotes

Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945)
SERENA WITH RED CAP, c.  2012 
Mixed Media
24x33
Private collection


Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three artists credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is best known for her figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She is the only artist to make realistically painted outdoor sculptures and the only woman to sculpt in this style.

Feuerman has received multiple awards including the Lifetime Achievement ‘Goddess Artemis” Award from the European American Woman’s Council (EAWC). She has also received the Special Honor Award in Changzhou CHN, Best in Show in Beijing CHN, the Amelia Peabody Award, First Prize at the Olympic Fine Art Exhibition in Beijing, and the Medici Award in Florence ITA.  She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum.

In 2011, she founded Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her works are in the permanent collections of thirty-one museums. More on Carole A. Feuerman

Emilie Möri, France
Summer break
Photography, Digital on Paper
 35.4 W x 35.4 H x 0 D in

Photograph offered for sale for C$1,650 on May 17, 2023

Émilie Möri is a Franco-Swiss photographer, born in 1978. She grew up in a family of printers. His experience in the field of screen printing reveals his passion for colors, image composition, artistic expression. A graduate of Les Gobelins Paris, Émilie is  an artistic director . Alongside her creations for advertising agencies, publishing houses, major brands and magazines, she uses her photographs to compose representations - real concrete utopias intricate with her emotions according to the notes and drawings she imagines beforehand. Currently, her experiments revolve around feminine ataraxia, dreams and timelessness. More on Émilie Möri

BRUCE WEBER (NÉ EN 1946)
Lisa Marie, Palm Beach, c. 1986
GELATIN SILVER PRINT
39 x 49 cm. (153⁄8 x 191⁄4 in.)
GELATIN SILVER PRINT

ELLEN VON UNWERTH (NÉE EN 1954)
Claudia Schiffer, Mykonos, c. 1990
GELATIN SILVER PRINT,
179 x 119 cm. (701⁄2 x 467⁄8 in.)
GELATIN SILVER PRINT

Estimated at EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000 in June 2023

Gaetano de Martini
After The Bath
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time

Painter Gaetano de Martini was born on 28 May 1840 in Benevento. He turned to painting when he was about twenty years old, attending the studio of Achille Vianelli in his native city. In the 1860s Gaetano moved to Naples, where he absorbed the style of Giacinto Gigante, producing a series of watercolor landscape paintings. Gaetano, however, aspired to paint figures and, to pursue this inclination, he started following the work of Tommaso De Vivo e Giuseppe Mancinelli. At this point, his rising career was abruptely interrupted by the premature death of his brother Raffaelle, in 1869. This tragic event led Gaetano to abandon painting for several years. He got back to painting in the 1880s, when his artistic career was eventually launched. At this stage, the influence of Domenico Morelli was decisive. In fact, Morelli encouraged Gaetano to devote to history painting and to neo-Pompeian art, a popular genre in the last part of the century. Recent discoveries in Pompeii held a strong influence on many Italian and European painters (such as Lawrence Alma Tadema), who focused on the sensuality of the ancient Roman culture. De Martini was active in Naples until his death, in 1917. More on Gaetano de Martini

Henri Lebasque, 1865 - 1937
Deux femmes et un enfant au bord de la mer/ Two women and a child by the seacirca 1930
Oil on canvas
19⅝ by 25½ in., 49.8 by 64.8 cm.
Private collection

Painting offered for sale for 50,000 - 70,000 USD on May 17, 2023

Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. He was born at Champigné (Maine-et-Loire). He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. Around this time, Lebasque met Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, who later would have a large impact on his work.

Lebasque's vision was coloured by his contact with younger painters, especially Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, founders of the Nabis' Group. From his first acquaintance with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Lebasque learnt the significance of a colour theory which stressed the use of complementary colours in shading.

Lebasque was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne in 1903, with his friend Henri Matisse, and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Two years later, a group of artists exhibited there including Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Ottmann, Édouard Vuillard, and Matisse.

His time in South of France would lead to a radical transformation in Lebasque’s paintings, changing his colour palette forever. Other travels included the Vendée, Normandy, and Brittany. More Henri Lebasque


Eser Afacan
Guardians Of The Sea
Oil on canvas
135 x 135cm
Private collection

Eser Afacan (born August 8, 1953) is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian ethnicity. His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin.

Afacan began drawing at a young age. He studied in Manchester, England before moving to Norway in 1978 to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bergen. As a student, he met Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum, in whose Oslo studio he subsequently worked.

In 1986, Afacan had his first art display and from that date onwards has exhibited his work in many different countries (Norway, Turkey, USA, Canada). His painting technique uses oil paints to create a transparent coat on the base layers, which are in tempera.

After living between England and Norway until 1985, he moved to the United States before emigrating to Canada in 2003, settling down with his family in Kingston, Ontario. More on Eser Afacan

Louis-Joseph Courtat (1840 - 1909, French)
Baigneuses (Bathers), c. 1885
Oil on canvas
Height: 80 in (203.2 cm), Width: 99 in (251.46 cm)
Private collection

This work was painted for and exhibited at the 1885 Paris Salon, the foremost exhibition of painters in the Western world. Large in size, it captures two nude bathers within a tranquil beach scene. While the artist's skill for landscape painting is on display, it is his command of form, light and color that bring this canvas to life. The artist specialized in paintings that glorified the nude, and his skill is clear in the luminosity of his models' skin and the classical beauty of their form and proportions. More on this painting

Louis-Joseph Courtat (1847 - 1909)  was born in Paris on September 6, 1847, only a few months before Europe erupted in revolution. Courtat studied at the famed École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel. He was one of the Academic master's first students at the school, where he began to teach in 1864. Displaying considerable skill at an early age, Courtat won the Prix de Rome around 1870, and subsequently studied in Rome for a number of years. He returned to Paris in 1873 to make his debut at the Salon, where he was met with immediate success, receiving a third class medal. He received medals again in 1874 and 1875, a remarkable achievement for a painter of his age. In addition to the monumental nudes he composed for the Salon, Courtat was also an accomplished portraitist and genre painter. Today his works are considered among the last great Academic paintings of the 19th century. More on Louis-Joseph Courtat 

Arthur Brusenbauch (Pressburg 1881 - 1957 Abtsdorf am Attersee)
Seated Nude, c. 1919
Oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm
Private collection

Solde for €13,000 EUR November 28, 2022 in Vienna, Austria

Arthur Brusenbauch (Pressburg 1881 - 1957 Abtsdorf am Attersee)
Odalisque female nude in landscape scenery
Oil on canvas
31" x 38"
Private collection

The Austrian painter, fresco painter and graphic artist Arthur Brusenbauch is commonly attributed to Late Impressionism. He studied under Johann Kautsky and subsequently worked as a stage decoration painter. Brusenbauch studied in Vienna at the Staatsgewerbeschule and the Akademie der bildenden Künste, interrupted by war service and imprisonment. In 1920 he became a member of the Vienna Secession, and in 1939 he moved to the Künstlerhaus. In 1928 he had represented Austria in the art competitions of the 1928 Olympic Games. From 1937 to 1941 he participated in all the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich with seven oil paintings. Late Impressionism or Post-Impressionism generally includes Pointillism (also known as Divisionism or Neo-Impressionism), Cloisonism, Synthetism, the Nabis group of artists, the Pont-Aven school, and the works of van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cézanne. The term Post-Impressionism goes back to the English painter and art critic Roger Frey, who had used it in 1910 on the occasion of the exhibition "Manet and the Post-Impressionists" organized by him in the Grafton Galleries, London. Paintings by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others, were shown there.. More on Arthur Brusenbauch

William Etty (1787 - 1849, British)
BATHER
Panel, Oil
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm), Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)

Offered for sale for US$10,800 as of May 17th, 2023

William Etty RA (10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English artist best known for his history paintings containing nude figures. He was the first significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Born in York, he left school at the age of 12 to become an apprentice printer in Hull. He completed his apprenticeship seven years later and moved to London, where in 1807 he joined the Royal Academy Schools. There he studied under Thomas Lawrence and trained by copying works by other artists. Etty earned respect at the Royal Academy of Arts for his ability to paint realistic flesh tones, but had little commercial or critical success in his early years in London. More on William Etty

Fernando Amorsolo
The Bathers, c. 1953
Oil on canvas
95 x 75 cm
Private collection

Sold for PHP 7,000,000 on June 22, 2019

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (born Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto; May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art,"[2] he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines.[3] He was recognized as such for his "pioneering use of impressionistic technique" as well as his skill in the use of lighting and backlighting in his paintings, "significant not only in the development of Philippine art but also in the formation of Filipino notions of self and identity." More on Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

George Grosz  (Berlin 1893–1959)
A Summer Day, around 1940
Oil on cardboard, mounted on masonite
70.2 x 49.1 cm,
Private collection

Estimate at €25,000 - €35,000 in May 2023

George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards. More on George Grosz

Litvinov Oleg Arkad'yevich
Summer
Oil on canvas
49x69.5 cm/'19.29x27.36 inches'

Offered for sale for $1,200.00 USD 

Alexander Arkadievich Litvinov was born on May 18, 1967 in the city of Lubny. He graduated from the Lubensk secondary school № 1. One of his favorite lessons was drawing. I was even more attracted by studies at an art school Especially in his artistic development, Alexander owes to Vasily Ivanovich Semenyuta, his classical school of teaching, which he enriched in his time through his acquaintance with famous artists Alexei Asaulenko and Petr Likhin. And also an extremely important role in the passion for painting was played by the fact that Alexander's father, Arkady Petrovich Litvinov, was both a talented artist and an excellent teacher. Oleg Arkadyevich Litvinov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, now lives in Odessa, also chose the artistic path. And after leaving school, Alexander served in the army, where his artistic talent came in handy - in Soviet times, visual agitation was highly valued. He served in Dnepropetrovsk, where two personal exhibitions of his paintings were organized. While still at school, Alexander began to design books, in particular, children's literature. He received his first creative fee in the tenth grade from the publishing house "Raduga" for the design of the book by Anatoly Rybakov "Krosh's Vacation". Later she studied at the Odessa Theater and Art School, specializing in "Decoration of puppet shows and artistic and props art." Studying at the school and passion from childhood with historical and biblical literature greatly influenced the creative manner of the artist. He works in the style of the so-called figurative art, where the main thing is the image of the human body. More on Litvinov Oleg Arkad'yevich


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01 painting, The amorous game, Luis Ricardo Falero's young player with the statue of Pan, with Footnotes, #91

Luis Ricardo Falero
Figure of a young player in an interior with the statue of Pan, c. 1876
Oil on canvas
53 x 68.5 cm
Private collection

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring.

In Roman religion and myth, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna; he was also closely associated with Sylvanus, due to their similar relationships with woodlands. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the Romantic movement of western Europe and also in the 20th-century Neopagan movement. More on Pan

Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 – December 7, 1896), Duke of Labranzano, was a Spanish painter. He specialized in female nudes and mythological, oriental and fantasy settings.[1] Most of his paintings contained at least one nude or topless female. His most common medium was oil on canvas.

Falero was born in Granada and originally pursued a career in the Spanish Navy, but gave it up to his parents' disappointment. He walked all the way to Paris, where he studied art, chemistry and mechanical engineering. The experiments that he had to conduct in the latter two were so dangerous, however, that he decided to focus on painting alone. After Paris, he studied in London, where he eventually settled.

Falero had a particular interest in astronomy and incorporated celestial constellations into many of his works, such as "The Marriage of a Comet" and "Twin Stars". His interest and knowledge of astronomy also led him to illustrate the works of Camille Flammarion. More on Luis Ricardo Falero




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