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“I am because my little dog knows me” – Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons / Objects, 1915 Between 1966 and 2008, native New Yorker Libby Hall collected over 900 photographs of dogs, circa 1850 to 1940. You might have seen them in her five books? Generous of heart and deed, Libby donated her collection to … Continue reading "Me My Dog And I: 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs"

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The Figments project is a project that was on my wishlist for a long time. It’s a story about one room through different time periods and with different residents. For this project, I started building a set in my studio based around a room with a window – inspired by the window Vermeer used in his paintings.

Goal is to create photographs that are works of art and to capture the best possible version of you; portraits that make an impression

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In his journal (published by Baron R. Portalis, see Literature), Danloux described in remarkable detail his meeting with the present sitter’s mother, Sophia Lambert (née Whyte; d.1839) as well as the commissioning and execution of not only the present portrait, but also that of Mrs. Lambert (sold Paris, Sotheby's, 19 June 2006, lot 79): “I have had a visit from M. Dellon, who tells me he had dined the previous evening with Mme. Lambert, daughter-in-law of Chevalier Lambert, the Paris banker, at the home of the Margrave (Prince) of Anspach. A rendezvous was made at my home [June 15, 1795], because she wanted to see my works. She arrived just after, recognized all the portraits of her acquaintances, asked my price and said she would present her husband to me.” Danloux also records the step by step process of the creation of this beautiful portrait, in eighteen seperate entries dating from 14 June to 3 August 1800, commenting not only on its progress, but also on the character of the young boy himself. Danloux’s day-by-day accounts of the execution of this work are less fully articulated, but no less informative, and even show his artistic process as he works through the painting of the hand: "le 14 juin 1800 : J’ai ébauché Lady Lambert et son fils. Le 18 juin 1800 : Mme Lambert m’envoie son fils par son mari. Je travaille à son portrait. L’enfant est fort bien élevé. Elle vient elle-même à deux heures. L’après diner j’ébauche le fond du tableau. Le 24 juin 1800 : Revenu chez moi, j’y trouve Sir Honble Lambert avec son fils. J’y travaille à peine, l’enfant ne se tenant pas. La mère arrive ensuite, mais je suis fatigué et je travaille à son portrait avec le même déplaisir… Le 28 juin 1800 : Sir Honble Lambert vient avec son fils pour prendre séance. L’enfant ne se tient pas ; Lady Lambert arrive et ne reste qu’une demie heure. Le 1er juillet 1800 : Sir honble Lambert est venu, je finis l’habit de son fils. Je ne fais rien qui vaille et le recommencerai. Le portrait du jeune Lambert a été retrouvé chez le révérend W.H. Lambert, à Santon House près d’Hertford. Henry John Lambert, 5e Baronnet, né en Aout 1792, avait alors 8 ans. La veste est gris français, la ceinture bleu clair, le col à jabot. S. H. Lambert-Grey, Enville Hall, Stourbridge, possède plusieurs portraits de la famille de la main de Danloux. Celui de Lady Lambert est au pastel. Le 5 juillet 1800 : J’ai travaillé au petit Lambert ; je l’ai fini quant à la tête. Le 7 juillet 1800 : Lady Lambert vient. Je la recommence et je la finis dans la matinée. Elle en est contente… Le 8 juillet 1800 : Je retouche au petit Lambert. Le 10 juillet 1800 : Je travaille au fond du petit Lambert. Le 17 juillet 1800 : J’ébauche le corps de Lady Lambert. Le 19 juillet 1800 : Je travaille encore au portrait du petit Lambert que son père m’amène, voulant toujours voir si il y a quelque chose à y faire. Il me donne deux billets d’opéra. Le 3 aout 1800 : Je peins la main du petit Lambert d’après Jules : Je ne sais ce que je fais." Danloux studied with both Joseph-Marie Vien and Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié and met Jacques-Louis David during a trip to Rome in the late 1770s. The influence of these artists, encountered in his formative years, remained palpable on Danloux for the rest of his career; it is particularly evident in his expressive faces and capacity for conveying human emotion. Danloux soon established himself as a talented genre painter and portraitist, spending time in both Italy and France. In 1785 he moved to Paris where he met the Baronne d'Etigny, who helped him obtain a number of importrant portrait commissions and two years later he married the Baronne's adopted daughter Marie-Pierrerre-Antoinette de Saint Redan. After eighteen months in Italy, the couple settled in Paris but were forced to flee to London in 1791 to escape the Revolution. By then, Danloux was at the height of his career; adapting to life in London with ease, he swiftly became renowned in the city's artistic and collecting circles alike, and this elegant portrait is a testament to his popularity among the English aristocracy at the turn of the century.

The best Soviet artists went far beyond the propaganda art and created real masterpieces. An artist who has passed through all Soviet art, from the OST group (a Society of Easel Artists who depicted the new Soviet realities using the methods of the German Expressionists) to figurative art with strong elements of the avant-garde. The work "In the metro" on the one hand reflects a passion for futuristic industrial themes, on the other-it is made in an absolutely avant-garde spirit. From the avant – garde with radical works and the legendary association "Jack of Diamonds" to almost a return to the style of the old masters with the preservation of physiology-Mashkov's work is incredibly diverse and fascinating. He is the creator of an absurd and ironic version of the Soviet still life. One of the largest and most famous Soviet masters. Curiously, as an artist, he was very different – in the 1920s and 1930s, they were two "different" people and artists – but at the same time he created his own recognizable style. His work does not fit into the generally accepted canvas of social realism, because each of his large-scale works was an absolutely new avant-garde solution. And moving in the circle of the Soviet higher nomenclature, he managed to remain himself. A complex and controversial figure, and a very ironic artist. He said to himself that he worked "from Ilyich to Ilyich" - from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. And his work is like a litmus paper – it was he who was the aesthetic canon of every era. A complex and controversial figure, and a very ironic artist. He said to himself that he worked "from Ilyich to Ilyich" - from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. And his work is like a litmus paper – it was he who was the aesthetic canon of every era. He, in particular, being a painter of Joseph Stalin, caught his craving for heavy minimalism, and in the time of Nikita Khrushchev revealed another canon-almost Soviet impressionism. One of the brightest women artists of the Soviet era, standing in the same row with Alexander Deineka, perhaps the best personified the militaristic theme, the images of various types of troops of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. Even the tank on her canvases became a full-fledged hero. A subtle and underrated artist, in the 1930s he worked as a curator of the department of the latest trends in Russian painting in the Tretyakov Gallery. And it is he who owns one of the main emblematic works of this period, "Political Employment on a battleship" from the collection of the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO". A paradoxical figure and an artist of the next generation. He is one of those who seriously looked into the art of the old masters, but at the same time created their own innovative interpretations of generally accepted subjects close to surrealism. Including even his widely published work "Letter from the Front". He has very interesting small forms – for example, still lifes, in which, as in a more free genre, magical realism and surrealism are reflected to the greatest extent. It has gone through several stages of flourishing. He started out with rather brutal battle scenes, but became an iconic figure for artists of the 1960s generation. He managed to create his own absolutely indescribable and recognizable style in all elements, but remain a completely simple, accessible person. There is a famous story when young authors from art workshops gathered to go for a beer, and the master caught up with them with a shout: Probably the main representative of the "harsh style" of the early 1960s, still working today. He changed his style several times, from multi-layered almost monochrome painting to his own version of primitivism with masterful color and composition. The author of two epoch-making paintings and the most famous artist to the mass audience. Her "Morning" and "Bread" were printed in every school textbook, as well as replicated in magazines and on posters. The canvas "Bread" became the embodiment of the Stalinist theme of fertility, and "Morning" - already the beginning of the Khrushchev thaw. At the same time, she always remained a very strong and versatile artist, changing styles, developing her own version of primitivism in the spirit of Henri Rousseau.

1903 Samuel Henry William Llewellyn - Viscount Molyneux (Walker Art Gallery)

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