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Medium: Tempera
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Thistle, on pure gold foreground. Iconic flower of Loro Piana company
Located in Milan, IT
Interpreting reality with skill and expertise is Margherita Leoni's principal value. She has been studying botany for decades and has an incredible hand that allows her to make water...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Bonfire, Jubilee Night by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting, 1936
Located in London, GB
Bonfire, Jubilee Night by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Egg tempura on linen
86 x 111 cm (33 ⁷/₈ x 43 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and dated lower left
Executed in 1936
Provenance
Private co...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
The Resurrection of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
with “Mr. Scheer,” Vienna, by July 1918; where acquired by:
Jindřich Waldes, Prague, 1918–1941; thence by descent to:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Rudolf Kuchynka, “České obrazy tabulové ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Památky archeologické, vol. 31 (1919), pp. 62-64, fig. 5.
Jaroslav Pešina, “K datování deskových obrazů ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Ročenka Kruhu pro Pěstování Dějin Umění: za rok (1934), pp. 131-137.
Jaroslav Pešina, Pozdně gotické deskové malířství v Čechách, Prague, 1940, pp. 150-151, 220.
Patrik Šimon, Jindřich Waldes: sběratel umění, Prague, 2001, pp. 166, 168, footnote 190.
Ivo Hlobil, “Tři gotické obrazy ze sbírky Jindřicha Waldese,” Umění, vol. 52, no. 4 (2004), p. 369.
Executed sometime in the 1380s or 1390s by a close associate of the Master of the
Třeboň Altarpiece, this impressive panel is a rare work created at the royal court in Prague and a significant re-discovery for the corpus of early Bohemian painting. It has emerged from an American collection, descendants of the celebrated Czech industrialist and collector Jindřich Waldes, who died in Havana fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
The distinctive visual tradition of the Bohemian school first began to take shape in the middle of the fourteenth century after Charles IV—King of Bohemia and later Holy Roman Emperor—established Prague as a major artistic center. The influx of foreign artists and the importation of significant works of art from across Europe had a profound influence on the development of a local pictorial style. Early Italian paintings, especially those by Sienese painters and Tommaso da Modena (who worked at Charles IV’s court), had a considerable impact on the first generation of Bohemian painters. Although this influence is still felt in the brilliant gold ground and the delicate tooling of the present work, the author of this painting appears to be responding more to the paintings of his predecessors in Prague than to foreign influences.
This Resurrection of Christ employs a compositional format that was popular throughout the late medieval period but was particularly pervasive in Bohemian painting. Christ is shown sitting atop a pink marble sarcophagus, stepping down onto the ground with one bare foot. He blesses the viewer with his right hand, while in his left he holds a triumphal cross with a fluttering banner, symbolizing his victory over death. Several Roman soldiers doze at the base of the tomb, except for one grotesque figure, who, beginning to wake, shields his eyes from the light and looks on with a face of bewilderment as Christ emerges from his tomb. Christ is wrapped in a striking red robe with a blue interior lining, the colors of which vary subtly in the changing light. He stands out prominently against the gold backdrop, which is interrupted only by the abstractly rendered landscape and trees on either side of him.
The soldiers’ armor is rendered in exacting detail, the cool gray of the metal contrasting with the earth tones of the outer garments. The sleeping soldier set within a jumble of armor with neither face nor hands exposed, is covered with what appears to be a shield emblazoned with two flies on a white field, somewhat resembling a cartouche (Fig. 1). This may be a heraldic device of the altarpiece’s patron or it may signify evil, referencing either the Roman soldiers or death, over both of which Christ triumphs.
This painting formed part of the collection assembled by the Czech industrialist and founder of the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company, Jindřich Waldes, in the early twentieth century. As a collector he is best remembered for establishing the Waldes Museum in Prague to house his collection of buttons (totaling nearly 70,000 items), as well as for being the primary patron of the modernist painter František Kupka. Waldes was also an avid collector of older art, and he approached his collecting activity with the goal of creating an encyclopedic collection of Czech art from the medieval period through to the then-present day. At the conclusion of two decades of collecting, his inventory counted 2331 paintings and drawings, 4764 prints, and 162 sculptures. This collection, which constituted the Waldesova Obrazárna (Waldes Picture Gallery), was first displayed in Waldes’ home in Prague at 44 Americká Street and later at his newly built Villa Marie at 12 Koperníkova Street. This Resurrection of Christ retains its frame from the Waldes Picture Gallery, including its original plaque “173 / Česky malíř z konce 14 stol.” (“Czech painter from the end of the 14th century”) and Waldes’ collection label on the reverse.
The Resurrection of Christ was one of the most significant late medieval panel...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting
Located in London, GB
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on linen
39 x 48 cm (15³/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Orovida and dated lower left 1934
Provenance
J Ankri, 8th October 1967
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 51, p. 56 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Orovida, February 1935, no. 6
Women’s International Art Club, 20th February - 13th March 1937, no. 273
London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 7
London, The Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 281 (possibly the etching)
London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Coloured Etchings: Orovida, 3rd-18th October 1957, no. 13
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
Migration (The Horses) by Orovida Pissarro - Painting of running horses
Located in London, GB
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Migration (The Horses) by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on linen laid on board
76 x 101 cm (29 ⅞ x 39 ...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera, Board
Baptism of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Achillito Chiesa, Milan
Luigi Albrighi, Florence, by 1 July 1955
with Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1969
Private Collection, Connecticut
Exhibited:
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (on loan, 2012)
Literature:
Carlo Volpe, “Alcune restituzioni al Maestro dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta,” in Quaderni di Emblema 2: Miscellanea di Bonsanti, Fahy, Francisci, Gardner, Mortari, Sestieri, Volpe, Zeri, Bergamo, 1973, pp. 19-20, fig. 18, as by the Master of Saints Quiricus and Julitta (now identified as Borghese di Piero).
This fine predella panel depicting the Baptism...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Tempera
Winter (The Skaters) by Orovida Camille Pissarro - Winter scene painting
Located in London, GB
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Winter (The Skaters) by Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera ...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
Consoling Her, Magazine Story Illustration
By Jim Schaeffing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera, Gouache
Vanderbilt Sleigh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Egg Tempera on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Egg Tempera
Two Women and an Automobile
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera and Collage on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Mixed Media, Illustration Board
Safe!
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Illustration of a baseball player's dusty crash to a field base as seen out of the corner of a television set.
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera
House at an Angle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Egg Tempera on Gesso Board
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Gesso, Board
Boy Blowing his Trumpet at a Birthday Dinner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Submitted as a Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera
Allegory
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Tempera and Watercolor on Board
Contemporary Art Deco style frame; art exhibition entry label from Hudson Valley Art...
Category
1930s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Board
Study for San Francisco Weekend
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera
The No-Cal
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medical Times, vol. 89, no. 5, May 1961, pp. 7a, 192a, cover illustration.
According to the Medical Times, where the present work was featured on the c...
Category
1960s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein, Canvas
Sleeping Dryads
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
Crepe Myrtle
Located in Dallas, TX
“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
Girl from a Distant Future
Located in Dallas, TX
This is egg-oil on Birch panel.
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Birch, Egg Tempera
Minor Saint
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Egg Tempera
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera, Gouache
St. Gerome - Holy Turk
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
Touch
Located in Dallas, TX
“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
"Is Geography Distracting You From the World Series?
By Charles Kerins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover for The Catholic Boy magazine, published September 1952. Captioned on the first page of the magazine: "Is geography distracting you from ...
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Foulard
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
Through the Picture Plane
Located in Dallas, TX
“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...
Category
2010s Symbolist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Birch
Nohbody's Wine (Kyclops)
Located in Dallas, TX
About Barnaby Fitzgerald’s work, the scholar Frederick Turner writes, “Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Egg Tempera
Ride the Red Earth, Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: 1958
Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50"
Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right
This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera, Gouache
Class Reunion Gone Wrong
By Monte Crews
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera and Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 10.50" x 14.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Paper
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite
Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
Hera
Located in Dallas, TX
A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Egg Tempera
Painter's Palette
Located in Dallas, TX
After a tour of duty in the US Navy, Miles Cleveland Goodwin earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, in 2007, and eventually returned to coastal Missi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Egg Tempera, Panel
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