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Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy 1837-1887 Rusland

Sophie Lécuyer / Fabricante d'images. Catalogue des pièces (gravure, sérigraphie, illustration, édition)

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Asemic WritingDo you remember when you first heard about asemic writing, and what impelled you to take it up?I have been making asemic works long before there was a name for it since as far back as the 1970's. An…

Today was the auction at Christie's that featured Isabella and the Pot of Basil... Now, as you will remember from my last post, Delaware Art Museum were selling this picture in order to fill some of the fiscal hole they had dug themselves into. They were looking for £5m to £8m from the sale. They made £2.5m. There was no reserve and so it sold for half of the lower estimate. This defies belief on many, many levels and now begs the question if the Hunt failed to earn them enough, what else will be added to the auction block so that Delaware can continue to exist. I don't see it as karma, I wish they had earned as much money as that painting was worth, more even. Now we have to wait and see what the feckless board of Delaware will do next. My sympathy is with the staff of the Art Museum who have to be on the front line of this situation, taking the flak. I bet it isn't a member of the board answering the phone or manning their Facebook page today. Moving on, the rest of the sale was a very mixed bag. Starting with the bad... The Home Quartette: Mrs Vernon Lushington and her children (1883) Arthur Hughes There were a number of passes (or no sales) in the auction including this beautiful work by Arthur Hughes, which fell short of it's estimated price £150,000 (it only reached £95,000). Likewise Millais' portraits of The Very Reverend Thomas William Jex-Blake and Mrs Henrietta Jex-Blake failed to make their reserve and weren't sold. An Autumnal Glow (1882) John Atkinson Grimshaw The set of Grimshaws on offer had mixed fortunes. An Autumnal Glow surpassed its £150,000 top limit and selling at £170,000. However, four of the five other Grimshaws either didn't make the bottom limit or were just not sold. Only View from Blackfriars Bridge by Moonlight made £160,000, the middle of the estimate. While his Pre-Raphaelite brother will no doubt grab all the headlines, it has to be said that the Rossetti's in the sale weren't exactly outstanding performers. From St John Comforting the Virgin at the Foot of the Cross (£3,000 less than the bottom estimate), a sketch for Lady Lilith (£2,400, under the £3,000 bottom estimate) Hesterna Rosa (£1,000 less than bottom estimate) and a sketch for Found (bottom estimate), things did not look so bright. Rosa Triplex (1874) Rosa Triplex from Virginia Surtees' collection made £750,000, just over the bottom estimate and Ruth and Boaz made £70,000, again just over the £60,000 bottom. Not a good day for Rossetti really. Unless you count Rossetti painting 'lovely Guggums' by Douglas Percy Bliss, which exceeded its estimate of £1,500-£2,000 by £10,000, selling at £12,000. Rossetti painting 'lovely Guggums' Douglas Percy Bliss So, what did well? It was a good day for the women artists. Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale's Lancelot and Elaine made £2,000 more than the top estimate (ironically the same amount the her friend Byam Shaw's picture made below his bottom estimate). This beautiful gem from stained glass artist Margaret Agnes Rope went soaring past its £6,000 to £8,000 estimate and came romping home with £22,000... Marie Spartali Stillman's A Lady with Peacocks in a garden, an Italianate landscape beyond made £8,500 and Mary Louisa Gow's A Kiss Goodnight made £16,000. Big result of the afternoon has to be Elizabeth Siddal's St Agnes Eve which was valued as between £2,500 to £3,500 and was sold for £13,000. So, to sum up, many of the beautiful Pre-Raphaelite pictures did not perform well in the auction this afternoon. You would think that Rossetti would be a safe bet but his art only just made bottom estimates or faltered around the middle. Hunt's A Staircase at Rochester Castle, Kent ploughed past its £10,000-£15,000 estimate to make £38,000, which makes no sense in respect to how badly Isabella did. Maybe it came down to bad press, and Isabella had become tainted in the light of the outcry against Delaware. It was good to see how well the women artists did, but again women artists have been gaining popular reputation lately with some good exhibitions and a tv series to boost their standing. The stand-out lot in terms of the amount of money it raked in was this one... Nadia (c.1921) Gerald Leslie Brockhurst Not my cup of tea, but obviously someone's because it sold for £105,000 after being valued at between £20,000 to £30,000. Goodness me. Actually, I far preferred this... Primavera (1914) George Clausen For twentieth century figurative, give me pink and nudie every time. This is beautiful and made £75,000, just below its upper limit. The thing to remember after what was a genuinely upsetting afternoon is that although Isabella has presumably gone into a private collection, maybe the person who calls it their own tonight will value it more than the board of Delaware Art Museum. We won't get to see it very often, maybe very little, but it still exists and possibly in safer hands tonight. I think a bigger worry is what will now happen with Delaware and their financial problem. We wait and see. Nervously.

A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.

Horst P. Horst, Hands Hands Hands, 1941 Claude Cahun, Sans titre, 1939 also >Hands / >Hands (II) >Man Ray / The Hands of Antonin Artaud (1922)

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Watercolor on paper

For centuries, scholars have mined the verse of Greek lyric poet Sappho, Plato's "tenth Muse," for clues about her life.

Sophie Lécuyer / Fabricante d'images. Catalogue des pièces (gravure, sérigraphie, illustration, édition)

Frederic Lord Leighton 1830-1896 Engeland

as part of the winning title, wangechi mutu's politically and socially engaging work will be showcased at the deutsche guggenheim this april.

Michael Malm: "The human figure, in my mind is the most beautiful of God’s creations". Well versed in a variety of painting styles, from still lifes

Часть 2:"Как хорошо все начиналось..." Sehnsucht (Träumerei) ca.1900 Die Erwartung (Träume II) 1912 Longing, 1907;Frühling, 1897 Verkündigung 1901 Verkündigung an die Hirten 1902 Träume 1911 Tanzende Kinder 1913 Melusine Tritychon ca.1910 *** Abendsonne im Moor,1903 Wintermärchen (Die Heiligen Drei…

Elizabeth Shippen Green [American Illustrator 1871-1954] One can see quite a similarity in the styles of artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith. The ladies met while studying illustration art with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and went on to do a children's calendar together. 'The Mistress of the House' series Watercolor and charcoal on board Delaware Art Museum

Fabio Fabbi 1861-1946 Italië

Artist Joseph Lorusso Chicago, Illinois, 1966 Joseph Lorusso --- Website

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[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 60 x 69 cm]

Briton Rivière 1840-1920 Engeland

There are three writer-illustrators of surpassing sweetness and loveliness that Jim and I have been a little obsessed with lately, in a get-...

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Auguste Toulmouche 1829-1890 Frankrijk

It seems that nothing was off-limits for the German artist Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), whose relentless experimentation with materials and forms yielded a prodigious output of eccentric, wildly varying works in all mediums. This selection of thirty paintings and one video, dating from the 1960s to 1980s, revolves loosely around the theme of travel. Faux naïf […]