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Fu Baoshi, Artist and Scholar

The Chinese pictorial art has a unique feature: throughout 2000 years, it has evolved without ever being outfashioned, so that modern artists have yet found their inspiration in the most ancient of...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki 9 hours ago.

L'Homme qui Chavire, by Giacometti 1 Reply

Everything seems to differentiate Rubens's Drunken Silenus and l'Homme qui chavire (the falling man) of Giacometti. One is fat, the other is skinny. One is painted, the other is sculpted. One is he...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Nov 5.

Kandinsky inside the Last Drama of the Bauhaus 1 Reply

After the glorious years of the Blaue Reiter, Kandinsky found at the Bauhaus an environment conducive to his teaching and developing of art theories. Pioneer of abstract art, he did not consider i...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Nov 5.

Sold by Renoir to Durand-Ruel 1 Reply

Three Renoir, one Pissarro, one Sisley, in the press release of a sale of Impressionist and modern art, this is not really outstanding. Except that almost all these works were purchased directly to...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Nov 5.

Korovin attracted by the Lights of the City 2 Replies

Konstantin Korovin was known in Russia for his paintings of various subjects with strong brush strokes and bright colors. His Russian works display a peaceful happiness influenced by the impression...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Nov 3.

Erik Laubscher selected by Stephan Welz and Co 2 Replies

This morning, I am very excited. I visited such a site of an auction house as I like them (and such as all of them should be!): Many details in the press releases, ease of finding the strengths of ...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Patsy Bernstein Oct 29.

All the Dollars are for Warhol

Sotheby's is announcing for their sale on November 11 in New York a very important artwork of Warhol, estimated $ 8 million. This painting on silkscreen is titled 200 One Dollar Bills. The work da...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 26.

A Follower of Gérôme is Visiting Cairo 1 Reply

According to Sotheby's, Leopold Carl Müller was the founder of the Orientalist school in Austria, and had a studio in Vienna and another in Cairo. His scenes of everyday life, colorful, lively, are...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 23.

Pierneef, draw me a Tree 1 Reply

The tree of Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is powerful. Its huge trunk rises right to the sky. At the top, its branches without leaves are shaped as a crown in which experts from Bonhams saw the influence ...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 21.

The Cavaliere of Marino Marini 1 Reply

Expressionist sculptor, Marino Marini studied the ambiguous relationship between horse and rider. He devoted most of his work on this subject which he dealt with a remarkable variety. Here is in 1...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 17.

Lawren Harris in the Freezing Light

Born into a wealthy family, Lawren Harris did not need working. He devoted himself to painting and to the Canadian artistic life. In 1919, two years after the untimely death of Tom Thomson, he was ...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 13.

Sanyu, the Parisian Chinese 1 Reply

Sanyu (Chang Yu) spent his artistic career in Paris. The Chinese artist was mainly known as a small master of female nude studies, very distorted, which sometimes remind Kisling's art. In the 1950...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Oct 6.

No Title for de Kooning's Art

The work of Willem de Kooning is typical of the twentieth century, of which he was one of the most outstanding artists. After the Second World War, he waves continuously between figuration (often v...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki Sep 12.

Colin McCahon selected by Deutscher and Hackett 2 Replies

New Zealand is passionate about an artwork of Colin McCahon. Sold in 1995 for 700 KNZ$ by Webb's in Auckland, it arrived afterwards in Australia where Deutscher and Hackett presents it on sale on A...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug 30.

Modern Architecture within the Art of Jeffrey Smart 1 Reply

As David Hockney, the Australian-born Jeffrey Smart is passionate about architecture. The strange oil on canvas by Smart, 100 x 99 cm, that Sotheby's sells on August 24 in Melbourne is entitled "T...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug 24.

Favour for Flowers 1 Reply

The rose is a natural wonder and a puzzle for artists because of the complexity of its details and of its color shades. Since the seventeenth century painters are striving to represent them in vas...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Aug 4.

The Simultaneous Nudes of Marcel Duchamp 1 Reply

In 1912, the limelights of art were accessible to young artists. Aged 25 years only, Marcel Duchamp disrupts not only all the traditions but also the avant-gardes. Early that year, he made his fir...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jun 24.

Oskar Kokoschka, Anxious Landscape Painter 1 Reply

Expressionism is a translation of anxiety, and Kokoschka is one of the most famous artists of this trend. His nervous and swirling line makes strange and hostile the landscapes of major cities. He ...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jun 24.

Sorolla at Bathing Hour 3 Replies

Sorolla loved the beach scenes of his hometown of Valencia. In 2003, Sotheby's sold at £ 3.7 million premium included La hora del baño, an oil on canvas 84 x 119 cm painted in 1904. The colors ar...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki Jun 4.

The Dreamlike Wedding of Leonora Carrington 2 Replies

In Paris, the English Leonora Carrington was close to the Surrealists. Very young, she had an affair with Max Ernst. When came the Second World War, she almost descended into madness, and then took...

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Started by Pierre Tavlitzki. Last reply by Pierre Tavlitzki May 29.

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Comment by rahul sharma on January 31, 2009 at 12:27pm: rahul sharma sale indian contempery art works
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Comment by nancy on January 2, 2009 at 1:03pm: excellent!
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Comment by Dr. Boguslaw Ryczko on November 6, 2008 at 4:21pm: Hola, Pierre:
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