01 Painting, The amorous game, Simon Buret's The Porous Lights, with Footnotes #87

Simon Buret, b. 1980
The Porous Lights, c. 2022
Acrylic on unstretched cotton canvas
57 x 41 cm ; 22 7/16 x 16 1/8 in.
Private collection

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 both author and singer. Simon Buret is also an accomplished painter! 

The young artist continues to combine his musical and cinematographic activities, since several of the original songs are songs from the band AaRON. In addition, the filmmaker offers him a small role in his film. 

His career accelerated even further in 2013: the actor played the protagonist, who had to relearn how to live after a long coma, in the drama Les Yeux Fermés , the first film by Jessica Palud . AaRON signs the music for this touching drama. Author: Lea Bodin




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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Antoon Heinsbergen's Paris Opera House, with footnotes, Part 92

Antoon Heinsbergen
Paris Opera House, c. 1941
Oil on canvas
Height: 20 inches / 50.8 cm, Width: 24 inches / 60.96 cm
Private collection

For sale for 4,500 USD in October 2023

A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.

Opéra, also known as Palais Garnier, formerly Académie Nationale de Musique, Parisian opera house designed by Charles Garnier. The building, considered one of the masterpieces of the Second Empire style, was begun in 1861 and opened with an orchestral concert on Jan. 5, 1875. The first opera performed there was Fromental Halévy’s work La Juive on Jan. 8, 1875. A second Parisian opera house, the Opéra Bastille, was inaugurated in 1989. Both operate under the direction of the Opéra National de Paris. More on Paris Opera House

Anthony Heinsbergen (December 13, 1894 – June 14, 1981) was an American muralist considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors.

Born Antoon Heinsbergen in Haarlem (the Netherlands), he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1906 where they settled in Los Angeles. Heinsbergen began painting while still a boy; and, as a young man he worked as an apprentice painter and was one of the first students to take formal training from Mrs. Nelbert Chouinard at her Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His area of interest in which he developed a renowned expertise was the painting of murals and in 1922 he went into business for himself. He was successful in obtaining a few commissions out of which he earned considerable recognition that led to a number of major contracts in and around Los Angeles The praise he received for this work opened the doors to jobs at more than twenty Pantages theatres and helped Heinsbergen become a major national contractor for theatre murals.

Heinsbergen's company grew to employ more than one hundred and eighty decorative painters involved with a wide variety of wall and ceiling murals for corporate offices, churches, synagogues, civic auditoriums, libraries and other ornate structures of the era. More on Anthony Heinsbergen




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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Federico Zandomeneghis Au théâtre/ At the theater, with footnotes, Part 91

Federico Zandomeneghi, 1841 - 1917

Au théâtre/ At the theatre, c. 1900

Pastel on paper

45.8 by 37.9cm., 18 by 15in.

Private collection


Two élégantes of the Paris beau monde are seen from behind, entranced by the dazzling performance by the young troupe of dancers unfolding on the stage before them. The setting is almost certainly the capital’s new opera house, recently opened in 1875 - the Palais Garnier, named after its architect, Charles Garnier, and home to the Paris ballet. It was a towering edifice of marble ornament and gilded decor, all but encrusted with antique statuary and classical murals. More on this painting

Federico Zandomeneghi (June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter. born in Venice. As a young man, he enrolling in 1856 first in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan. In 1859, to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, he fled Venice. By the next year in 1860, he tried to join with the forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) in his Expedition of the Thousand. This made it uncomfortable for him to reside in Venice, leading to a brief incarceration, and in 1862, he moved to Florence for 5 years. There he met a number of the artists known as the Macchiaioli, including Signorini, Martorelli, Giovanni Fattori and Giuseppe Abbati, and he joined them in painting landscapes outdoors. Painting outside of the studio, "en plein air", was at that time an innovative approach, allowing for a new vividness and spontaneity in the rendering of light.

By 1866, Zandomeneghi had returned to Venice.

In 1874, he went to Paris, where he was to spend nearly the rest of his life. He quickly made the acquaintance of the Impressionists, who had just had their first group exhibition. Zandomeneghi, whose style of painting was similar to theirs, would participate in four of their later exhibitions. Like his close friend Edgar Degas he was primarily a figure painter, although Zandomeneghi's work was more sentimental in character than Degas'. He also admired the work of Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and his many paintings of women in their domestic routines follow their example. To supplement the meager returns from the sale of his paintings, Zandomeneghi found work drawing illustrations for fashion magazines. More on Federico Zandomeneghi




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01 Painting, The amorous game, Fernand Cormon's A Friend's Lunch, with Footnotes #85

Fernand Cormon
A Friend's Lunch, c. 1885
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 by 47 in.; 92.1 by 119.4 cm.
Private collection

Sold for 37,500 USD in January 2011

"Interior of an artist's studio. Around a lounge table, covered with dishes and bottles, four young men and two young women are seated, drinking coffee, laughing heartily. In the background, a Breton chest; on the right, a canvas on an easel" Georges Lafenestre

Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France.

At an early age he attracted attention for the perceived sensationalism in his art, although for a time his powerful brush dwelled with particular delight on scenes of bloodshed, such as the Murder in the Seraglio (1868) and the Death of Ravana, King of Lanka at the Toulouse Museum. The Musée d'Orsay has his Cain fleeing before Jehovah's Curse; and for the Mairie of the fourth arrondissement of Paris he executed in grisaille a series of panels: Birth, Death, Marriage, War, etc. A Chiefs Funeral, and a series of large paintings for the Museum of natural history in Paris with themes from the Stone Age, occupied him for several years. He was appointed to the Legion of Honor in 1880. Subsequently he also devoted himself to portraiture.

Being well-accepted at the annual Salon, he also ran an art school, the Atelier Cormon in the 1880s where he tried to guide his students to create paintings which would be accepted by the Salon's jury.

Despite his moment of glory as a Beaux-Arts professor he was almost forgotten by 1924 when he was run over by a taxi outside his studio, and is barely remembered today save as the teacher of pupils more illustrious than himself. More on Fernand Cormon




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01 Photograph, The amorous game, Sante D’Orazio's Stephanie and Naomi, With Footnotes #84

Sante D’Orazio
Stephanie and Naomi, ca. 2002
Archival Pigment Print
40 × 60 × 1 in | 101.6 × 152.4 × 2.5 cm
Private collection

Sante D'Orazio (American, b. January 23, 1956) is a Modern photographer. His interest in art began while studying fine arts at Brooklyn College. He also studied photography with Lou Bernstein (American, 1911–2005), a member of The New York Photo League, and worked under Philip Pearlstein (American, b.1924), an American Contemporary painter, from 1979 to 1980.

A bookworm until age 25, D'orazio began his career working for Italian Vogue in 1981, and was eventually noticed by Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. This led to a surplus of work involving renowned fashion magazines and business-related clients. His work revolves around a world of alluring celebrities in various stages of undress.

Other publications that have featured D'orazio's work include Vanity Fair, GQ, and Vogue. His pictures have been published in books and put on display in both the United States and Europe. 

Currently a photographer for Playboy, his book Barely Private stays true to his theme: a raw, uncensored look at the fashion industry. Featuring photos of celebrities such as Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera, it is brimming with handwritten notes, creating a diary-like effect. D'orazio is slated to produce a third book entitled Barely Alive. More on Sante D'Orazio




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01 painting, The amorous game, Francesco Vinea's Serenade in the Tavern, With Footnotes #84

Francesco Vinea
Serenade in the Tavern, c. 1887
Oil on panel
18 by 21 1/2 in.; 45.7 by 54.6 cm.
Private collection

Sold for 20,000 USD in January 2011

Francesco Vinea
Detail; Serenade in the Tavern, c. 1887
Oil on panel
18 by 21 1/2 in.; 45.7 by 54.6 cm.
Private collection


Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 - Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects.

He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without a home. He worked for a photographer, also as a designer of illustrated magazines, but returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollastrini, but only for a year.

He was not inclined to the erudite historical or literary paintings, or earnest depictions of natural scenes, favored by some academic contemporaries. He meddled in an imaginative, often raffish or coquettish, and always elegant depictions of dramas in elegant period costume occurring in equally ornamented interiors. The paintings proved popular in England and France, and Vinea gained a comfortable living. His studio on boulevard Prince Eugene in Florence is depicted as hoard of exotic items, and eclectic furniture and decorative items: a collection easily finding his way as ornaments of his paintings. Gubernatis describes his studio as his best work of art. The ceiling painted in tempera with Olympic gods, in allegory to the fine arts, and his collected items haphazardly stored. More on Francesco Vinea




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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Paul Gustav Fischer's An Evening Stroll on the Boulevard, with footnotes, Part 90

Paul Gustav Fischer
An Evening Stroll on the Boulevard
Oil on canvas
15 1/2 by 22 in.; 39.4 by 55.9 cm.
Private collection

Sold for 65.500 USD in Jan 2011

Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter.

Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father had started as a painter, but later succeeded in the business of manufacturing paints and lacquers.

His formal art education lasted only a short time in his mid teens when he spent two years at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Fischer began to paint when he was still young, guided by his father. He worked from 1878-88 at the father's factory and exhibited regularly at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 1884-1902.

It was thanks to a painting he had published in Ude og Hjemme that his reputation began to evolve as he came in contact with young Danish naturalists. His earlier paintings depict city life. After a stay in Paris from 1891–1895, his colours became richer and lighter. It was not long before Fischer gained fame as a painter of cities.

He benefited from contemporaries in Norway and Sweden, especially Carl Larsson. Around this time, he also painted bright, sunny bathing scenes, some with nude women, and developed an interest in posters. 

During the period when he actively painted, Danish art was dominated by Laurits Tuxen. Despite Fischer's lack of critical recognition during his lifetime, his art sold well. One major event in which he succeeded over Tuxen was when Sweden transferred the sovereignty of Norway back to the Norwegians - Fischer rather than Tuxen got the commission from the King of Norway to paint the event.  
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01 painting, The amorous game, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Fountain of Love, With Footnotes #83

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
La fontaine d'amour (The Fountain of Love), c. 1785
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 50.7 cm
The Wallace Collection

The scene depicts love as a natural force and uncontrollable passion, stronger than the people affected by it. This perception of love was still recent around 1785 when Fragonard painted the two versions. While the image of a fountain of love was known, e. g. from Aristotle, the image is Fragonard's pictorial invention without a direct literary source. More on this painting

Embodying the freedom and curiosity of the French Enlightenment, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) developed an exuberant and fluid manner as a painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Prolific and inventive, he abandoned early on the conventional career path dictated by the hierarchical structure of the Royal Academy, working largely for private patrons. His work constitutes a further elaboration of the Rococo idiom established by Antoine Watteau and François Boucher, a manner perfectly suited to his subjects, which favored the playful, the erotic, and the joys of domesticity. More on Jean Honoré Fragonard





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03 Works, Tyler Shields' Gators , with Footnotes #89

Tyler Shields
Gator
Dibond with Lustre Film lamination
54 x 72 in (137.16 x 182.88 cm)

On a flight from Paris to London? British actress Jane Birkin, sitting next to Jean-Louis Dumas, Executive Chairman of Hermès (1978-2006), was complaining that she couldn't find a bag suitable for her needs as a young mother.

Tyler Shields
Gator Birkin Hands, c. 2012
Dibond with Lustre Film lamination
22.5" x 30"

"Hermes Porosus Crocodile skin is considered the most exclusive of the exotics and is made from the smallest scales."

Tyler Shields
Black Birkin, c. 2021
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
70" x 70"

Born in 1982, Tyler Shields’ work derives from a unique history directing music videos and working with the legendary skateboarding icon Tony Hawk. Mr. Shields has produced images that play with notions of the gaze, power structures, hyper-realism, iconoclastic-tendencies and cinematographic practice. 

Shield’s technical brilliance as a photographer has much more to do with the shift in focus from the fragility of the “celebrity photographer” to the output of the contemporary art medium. Most of the talented people who work with him include actors who are serious about their profession, but are not celebrities. People will go to him to make art rather than celebrity photography.

Mr. Shields’ work isn’t about celebrity – it’s about working with colleagues and friends in his social sphere who want to make art. They share an obsession to create, to make, to own, to expose, to play. His work is as much a collection of documentations of his sphere of influence and inspire his work. They are active participants rather that spectators. Eroticism, torture, decadence are all mere mediums that seem to remain eternally the same and only enhanced by the participant’s own injected identity and experience. It is the glossy mortality of the space of the human condition that is the only true crystal lens that the world inside and out, can be seen in the creation of a new type of fiction. Tyler Shields captures a new type of American life while exploring the fictional nature of the historical and the classic.-- 

Sotheby’s named Shields’s “The Warhol of his generation” in 2019. More on Tyler Shields




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01 Photograph The amorous game, Robert Doisneau's Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville/ The Kiss at City Hall, with Footnotes #86




Robert Doisneau
Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville/ The Kiss at City Hall
Offset Lithograph
23.75 x 31 inches
Private collection

Estimated for €20,000 EUR - €25,000 EUR in June 2011

Doisneau’s photo was not without controversy. Many years later, a couple, Jean and Denise Lavergne, stepped forward to pronounce themselves the lip-locked subjects. Doisneau took the couple to lunch, and not wanting to “shatter their dream,” he let them go on thinking they were indeed the young lovers. But lunch was not enough for the Lavergnes. They sued Doisneau for “taking their picture without their knowledge or consent”. Doisneau then revealed the truth behind his photo. It was staged. The lovers were not the Lavergnes, but rather Françoise Delbart (20) and Jacques Carteaud (23), a couple whom he had seen kissing earlier that morning, but had not initially photographed. Doisneau approached them and asked if they would repeat le baiser. Doisneau won the court case against the Lavergnes. More on this photograph

Robert Doisneau was born April 14, 1912 in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Paris. He is one of France’s most noted photographers. During his long career, his poetic approach to street photography recorded French everyday life in often playful and surreal images. Always charmed by his subjects, he enjoyed finding amusing juxtapositions or oddities of human nature.

Doisneau initially studied engraving and lithography at the École Estienne in Paris.  After his graduation in 1929, he started photographing professionally, first working for advertising photographer André Vigneau, in whose studio he met artists and writers with avant-garde ideas. He began photographing details of objects in 1930, and sold his first photo-story to the Excelsior newspaper in 1932. Beginning in 1934, he worked for Renault as an industrial and advertising photographer. When he was fired in 1939, he earned his living through advertising and postcard photography. That year he was hired by the Rapho photo agency, where he worked until the onset of World War II. A member of the Resistance both as a soldier and as a photographer, Doisneau also worked for the resistance forging documents. He photographed both the occupation and the liberation of Paris. In 1945 he started anew with his advertising and magazine work, including fashion photography and reportage for French Vogue from 1948 to 1952. 

His first book of photographs, La Banlieue de Paris (“The Suburbs of Paris,”1949); was followed by over twenty publications of his photographs, often of Paris and Parisians. In the 1950s Doisneau became active in Group XV, an organization of photographers devoted to improving both the artistry and technical aspects of photography. 

He photographed a vast span of people and events, often juxtaposing conformist and maverick elements in images marked by an exquisite sense of humor, by anti-establishment values, and, above all, by his deeply felt humanism. Doisneau was in many ways a shy and unassuming man, rather like his photography. He lived in the Paris suburb of Montrouge. He died on April 1, 1994 in Broussais, France. More on Robert Doisneau




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01 Work, Giovanni Battista Torriglia's The artist's studio , with Footnotes #87

Giovanni Battista Torriglia (Italian, 1858-1937)
The artist's studio 
Oil on canvas
65 x 52 1/2in (165.2 x 133.4cm)
Private collection

Sold for  $4,000 USD in February 2023

The studio of any artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as "from the workshop of..." or "studio of..." An art studio is sometimes called an atelier, especially in earlier eras. More on The studio

Giovanni Battista Torriglia was an Italian painter of genre subjects. He was born in Genoa but his artistic training took place in Florence. He devoted himself to painting scenes of life in the countryside. Themes of charming peasants were in great demand in Italy and throughout Europe towards the end of the 19th Century. Torriglia was particularly adored for his warm and sympathetic view of the wholesomeness of peasant family life. His multi-figured compositions display great visual details enriched further by strong narrative elements.

Commissions to decorate the interior of churches in the towns of Sester Levante, Monte Figogna and Salviolan reinforced the popularity of his work. More on Giovanni Battista Torriglia




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01 Work, Robert Neal's The Agony of Ethiopia , with Footnotes #88

Robert Neal (1916-1987)
The Agony of Ethiopia, c circa 1985
Oil on canvas
35 1/2 by 30 in., 90.2 by 76.2 cm.
Private collection

Estimated for US$12,000 - US$18,000 in July 2022

A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia's 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia. Almost 200,000 children were orphaned. More on the widespread famine

A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is known about his latter life or career. More on Robert Neal




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