Jean Lurssen

Breaking Storm, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

2016

ADRIFT! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town? So sailors say, on yesterday, 5 Just as the ...

Under the Nérac La France Bridge there flows the Baïse And our loves recall how then After each sorrow joy came back again Let night come on bells end the day The days go b...

The dreamed Christmas, flakes shaken out of silences so far and starry we can't sleep for listening for papery rustles out there in the night and wake to find our ceiling glimmering, the day a psaltery of light. So we're out over the snow fields before it's all seen off with a salt-lick of Atlantic air, then home at dusk, snow-blind from following chains of fox and crow and hare, to a fire, a roasting bird, a ringing phone, and voices wondering where we are. A day foretold by images of glassy pond, peasant and snowy roof over the holy child iconed in gold. Or women shawled...

Come out into the evening streets of the Latin Quarter. The green light lessens in the west. The city laughs and liveliest her fervid pulse of pleasure ...

Title: Bullfighting Scene Artist: Roberto Domingo Technique: Gouache on paper Dimensions: 7 x 10 in (14 x 17.3 in with frame) Period: 1930s Style: Spanish Impressionism with Post-Impressionist influence Condition: Framed in a classic wooden frame Theme: Bullfighting scene Description of the Artwork "Bullfighting Scene" by Roberto Domingo is a vibrant and dynamic depiction of a typical moment in a bullring. The composition captures the drama and intensity of the moment, with a mounted picador on a striking white horse as the centerpiece, flanked by a matador and assistants preparing for the spectacle. The artwork radiates energy through swift and loose brushstrokes, imbuing the scene with movement and vitality. Domingo’s style emphasizes visual synthesis, focusing on color and form rather than meticulous detail to convey the atmosphere of the bullfighting arena. Warm tones dominate, with vibrant yellows and reds contrasting against the grays and whites of the horse and costumes, creating a captivating chromatic interplay. The classic frame adds sobriety and balance to the piece, further highlighting the expressive power of the gouache. Biography of the Artist Roberto Domingo Fallola (1883-1956), born in Paris, was a renowned painter and illustrator of Spanish descent. The son of the celebrated bullfighting painter Vicente Domingo, he inherited a passion for bullfights and became one of the leading exponents of bullfighting art...

Wonderful watercolor portrait by Theodore S. Slafter. Exhibited at the Boston Art Club and housed in a period arts and craft carved frame. Slafter was born to a distinguished New Eng...

René Buignet (1888-1915) La Fontaine Médicis, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris Each one signed lower right watercolor on paper size of each : 28.5 x 21 cm In the same mount and framing :...

Artist: Beatrice Stella Pedder (English, 1875-1965) Title: "The Round Pond, Market at Concarneau, Brittany, France" *Signed by Pedder lower right Circa: 192...