Dorothy King

The Model Asleep - Mid 20th Century Nude Still Life Oil Painting by Dorothy King

Circa 1940

Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...

Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...

Arnold Beauvais (1886-1984) Arnold Victor Beauvais was born in Lewisham on 13 April 1886, son of a French father, the artist Charles Henri Beauvais, and an English mother, Anne, née Corfield. He trained in his father's commercial art studio during the day, working on lithographic printing and poster design, and took night classes at the Bolt Court Art School in Fleet Street. In 1903 his father returned to his home town of Marseille and set up a commercial art studio. Arnold studied in Paris for sixteen months before joining his father in Marseille. Charles died...

Artist's Address - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by Dorothy King - London Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She took up painting professionally after the war and in 1947 was elected to the RBA. In 1959 she was a temporary keeper of its galleries in Suffolk Street and then, from 1961-1974, was a keeper of the South London Art Gallery. Dorothy King’s paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Arts Club and elsewhere in the U.K. and her work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York. A memorial show was held at the Mall Galleries in 1992 after her death in 1990. This piece of the artists house in London was created using oil on canvas and is in a wooden frame. Keywords: Impressionist, impressionism, artist window, address, London, Russell Square...

Denise has been painting professionally since the early 1980's, and has been teaching watercolours since 2002. She says "my inspiration is the world around me... it is truly amazin...

Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the art community in St Ives and was elected Pr...

Deux Baigneuses dans un Paysage by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO (1871-1961) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 1⁄8 inches) Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 55 This work is ...

René Magritte 1898-1967 Belgian Le carnaval du sage (The Sage’s Carnival) Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso) Oil on canvas The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre. Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer. The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...

Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas
 55 x 47 cm (21 ⅝ x 18 ½ inches) 
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
 Executed circa 1910 This work is accompanied by a cer...

Signed and dated nude figure in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. This work depicts a painting of Pierre De Belay's wife - Helene. Here she...

"Fragment" by Rudolf Kosow is a poignant miniature painting on wood, which masterfully captures the essence of contemporary portrait art with a nuanced approach. The painting feature...

"Fragment 7" by Rudolf Kosow is a deeply evocative miniature painting on wood that portrays the subtle details of a human profile with a focus on the neck and shoulder. The artwork's...