Irene Georgopoulou

I've been Around the World

2020

Red River

Judging a Book By Its Cover, 2020

Security Detail, 2020

Silk, Leather, and Lace

Weber's Rose

Missing You This work is sold unframed, and will need to be framed.

A fine early nineteenth century Regency Period pastel, depicting the goddess Hebe. Pastel upon paper, housed within a period circular mounted rectangular frame. In Greek mythology, Hebe was the goddess of...

Attributed to Johann Heinrich Schröder (1757-1812) Hebe and Ganymede circa1800 A pair of pastels on paper; held in ebonised frames The German artist, Johann Heinrich Schröder was born in Meining in 1757 and studied at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Kassel under Johann Heinrich-Tischbein (1722-1789). He undertook study tours to England and the Netherlands where he portrayed members of the royal families and on his return to Germany was quickly employed by various courts, becoming the favoured royal portraitist of the Duke of Brunswick. He worked mainly in pastels – producing lively, colourful images – and was the best German artist of his time using this technique. Though not typical for the artist, these mythological figurative works exhibit very similar qualities that make it likely that they are by him, or at the very least, an extremely talented colleague working closely in his circle. Many slightly different versions of the classical myth exist but in essence the pastels simply depict both Hebe and Ganymede as cup-bearers to the Gods: Hebe, the daughter of Juno, and goddess of youth, vacated this position on becoming the wife of Hercules or possibly was dismissed as a consequence of a fall she met with when in attendance on the gods. Her successor was Ganymede, a Trojan boy, whom Jupiter, in the disguise of an eagle, seized and carried off from the midst of his play-fellows on Mount...

Ballroom Dancers by Trudy Good. Original Charcoal & Pastel onto paper. Trudy Good is a British figurative painter who has exhibited in numerous plac...

Ballroom Dancers II by Trudy Good. Original Charcoal & Pastel onto paper. Trudy Good is a British figurative painter who has exhibited in numerous pla...

Alyson Borycki is a self-taught artist, creating energetic and playful abstract paintings. Her paintings are inspired by shapes and patterns observed in nature as well as the array o...

Original Pastel drawing signed and dated by Aubrey Penny. Laws of Chance Structure Series 1518-C, 1962 Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artist...