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Paintings of 1922: Figurative and portraits

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Paintings by Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Dagnan-Bouveret, LA Ring, and others all completed a century ago.

December 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 2

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More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.

October 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 1

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From Rubens’ double-portrait with Isabella Brant, and Rembrandt’s with Saskia, to Paul Signac’s wife with a parasol and Ferdinand Hodler’s wife Berthe Jacques.

October 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sargent’s Portraits 2: The New Woman and her surrogate dog

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The man in the background is the husband of Mrs Phelps Stokes, posing as a surrogate for a Great Dane. Note the Renaissance elbow.

June 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sargent’s Portraits 1: Three prim ladies and an orgy

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How the grand-daughters of the Duchess of Devonshire posed for the triple portrait and referred back to any orgiastic scene of bacchanalian revelry.

June 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: surviving by her portraits

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A superb painter in pastels, she painted Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, more than thirty times. She survived the revolution and terror to paint Napoleon’s youngest sister as a queen.

May 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Fernand Khnopff

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A major Symbolist painter whose enigmatic paintings became popular in the salons of Les XX at the end of the 19th century.

November 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: The refused portrait

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Two portraits which were refused by their clients. One brought the painter’s revenge, the other almost proved the death of the artist.

June 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Art of Anders Zorn 7: The White House and legacies

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In 1911, he sailed to the US to paint its President, the third he had made a portrait of. But less than ten years later, Zorn was dead.

August 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Art of Anders Zorn 6: Presidents and Saunas

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A portrait of Grover Cleveland, who had until recently President of the USA, an impudent nude, and girls frolicking in the sauna.

August 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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