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''Holland'', Portrait of a Girl with Holland, Netherlands
By Yvonne Michiels
Located in Utrecht, NL
In her art, Dutch photographer Yvonne Michiels (1966) depicts personal stories about beauty, emotions and mortality.
In the Cities-series Yvonne subt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Plexiglass
Liz (FS II.7)
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 300
Signed and dated in ball-point pen
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Lithograph
Nelson Mandela, Pop Art Portrait by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - )
Title: Nelson Mandela
Year: 2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Signed u.l.
Size: 18 x 16 inches
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Acrylic
"Samantha" Bronze Sculpture 14" x 13" x 9" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
By Sarkis Tossonian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Samantha" Bronze Sculpture 14" x 13" x 9" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
* Due to the Ministry of Culture policy + COVID situation, handling time (paperwork) may take up to 1-3 month.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Bronze
Untitled, Red Painted on Fiber Glass by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By DVS Krishna
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
DVS Krishna
Red Painted on Fiber Glass - 14 x 13 x 15 inches, 2019
Born in 1973 @ Nellore Town Andhra pradhesh completed his graduation in painting from JNTU Hyderabad in 1996 worke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Fiberglass
A Fine Etienne Gaudez Polychrome-Patinated Bronze Orientalist Bust
Located in New York, NY
A Fine Quality Polychrome-Patinated Bronze Bust of an Orientalist Princess.
The Princess wears a luxurious gold and silver brocade vest, with patinas that skillfully imitate gold an...
Category
19th Century Portraiture
Materials
Bronze
Bust of Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi by Domenico Guidi
Located in New Orleans, LA
This monumental bust is a museum-quality example of Roman Baroque sculpture. Crafted by the legendary Domenico Guidi and carved from Carrara marble, the impressive portrait captures the visage of Pope Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi (1611-1689). It presents a larger-than-life example of Guidi’s remarkable skill as a sculptor, which ultimately made his workshop one of the most important in Rome during his age. Today, his works are rarely found on the market, particularly his extraordinary works in marble.
Pope Innocent XI was born Benedetto Odescalchi into an Italian noble family of prominent bankers. Spending his early years in banking, he eventually turned to the law, earning his doctorate in 1639. His background would serve him well in his service to the papacy, and he became known as a frugal and devout member of the Church. In 1676, he was unanimously elected Pop after the death of Clement X. During his nearly 13-year reign, he instilled his own personal ideals of austerity and frugality onto the Church, with a deep commitment to reform and piety.
He is captured here by Guidi in his traditional Pope’s mozzetta and camauro cap. A wide stole is draped over his shoulders, ornamented by acanthus leaves and the coat of arms of the Odescalchi family. It displays Guidi’s mastery over the chiaroscuro effect, particularly in the high level of contrast in his cheeks and his eyes, which Guidi achieved through various methods of high polish.
A very similar portrait sculpture of Pope Innocent XI by Guidi can be found in the collection of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The Warsaw bust belongs to a series of portraits of popes which the Odescalchi family commissioned from Domenico Guidi in the 1690s. Compared to that example, the present bust is far more dramatic, with deeper cut lines and a more precise expression. It is likely that the present piece was seen by the Odescalchi family, who ordered a similar one to be made. The piece was almost certainly intended to be displayed in a niche, given its dramatic cutting and its roughly carved back.
Others of Guidi’s busts can be found in important collections throughout Italy, England and the United States, though many of these are lesser bronze repetitions. A bronze bust of the Pope Alexander VIII by Guidi is currently in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), while a terracotta version of the same is in the Los Angeles County Museum. A bronze of Pope Alexander VIII can be found in the Princely Collection of Lichtenstein, and his impressive marble papal bust of Clement IX graces the pope’s tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore. The present bust of Pope...
Category
17th Century Baroque Portraiture
Materials
Marble
Two for Tea
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel
Panel size: 18 x 15 inches
Framed size: 22 x 19 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bows, Black and White Street Photography in Paris 1980s France
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image shot on film in Paris, France in the 1980s, Roberta Fineberg’s subject is a young French-African girl with braids, ribbons, and bows that RF photographed in f...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Dalai Lama
By Chuck Close
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Dalai Lama
Year: 2005
Medium: Digital pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper
Edition: 300; signed, dated and numbered in pen...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Digital Pigment
FROM BEDROOM PAINTING #41
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on museum board. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont. Sheet size 59 x 68 inches. Artwork is in e...
Category
1990s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Board, Screen
The Salon of Oluchi Oneya and Leenos The Forgiving
By Shawn Theodore
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This photograph titled "The Salon of Oluchi Oneya and Leenos The Forgiving" is an original artwork by Shawn Theodore measuring 60"h x 90"w. It is an archival pigment print on Hahnemü...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Archival Pigment
Unique Ceramic Cubist Bust
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown, in the style of Pablo Picasso
Medium: Painted Terracotta Sculpture
Size: 27 tall x 15 x 12 inches
Category
20th Century Cubist Portraiture
Materials
Ceramic
SELF PORTRAIT 2
By Chuck Close
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered and dated by the artist in pencil. From the Self Portrait 1-5 series. Artwork is in excellent condition. Image size: 25 x 19 inches. Frame size: 32.6 x 25.75 in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Photographic Film, Paper
JOE MCDONALD
By David Hockney
Located in Portland, ME
Hockney, David. JOE MCDONALD. Scottish Arts Council 175. Gemini DH76-767.
Lithograph in two blacks, 1976. Done in crayon on both a stone and an aluminum ...
Category
1970s Portraiture
Materials
Lithograph, ABS
Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
By Bradshaw Crandell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
1940s Portraiture
Materials
Pastel
The Shipwrecked Heart
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The Shipwrecked Heart" is an original oil painting by American artist Katherine Fraser. The piece ship in the pictured wooden frame and measures 64”h x 50”w.
"I think a lot about ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century portrait oil painting of a young woman with pearls & a rose
By Alfred Seifert
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Alfred Seifert
Czech, (1850-1901)
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace & Rose
Oil on panel, signed
Image size: 15.5 inches x 12 inches
Size including frame: 23 inches x...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portraiture
Materials
Panel, Oil
JACQUELINE KENNEDY I FS II.13
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Jacqueline Kennedy I, from 11 Pop Artists I. Screenprint in silver, on wove paper. Artist's stamped signature on the reverse and numbered. From the edition of 200. Published by O...
Category
1960s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Screen
Ladies and Gentlemen (Easha McClery)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
“In 1975, Andy Warhol undertook a series of portraits of New York City transvestites, most of whom were recruited by Bob Colacello from a club called The Gilded Grape. The method for...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Polaroid
Portrait of a Young Boy with Birdcage
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in London, GB
Circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
1725 - 1805
Portrait of a Young Boy with Birdcage
Oil on canvas
Image size: 15½ x 12 inches
Original frame
J...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987 – Albert Watson, Celebrity, Fashion, Art
By Albert Watson
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987
1987
Archival pigment print
Image 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Edition of 10; Ed. no. 9/10
Print only
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Archival Pigment
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
Signed on mount
Silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Provenance: Estate of Yousuf Karsh, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portraiture
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Two Paths Diverged", Large Portrait Woman in Garden with Roses Oil Painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This large oil painting on canvas of a woman in a garden with roses titled "Two Paths Diverged" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring 49”h x 5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Ridgeway Gould, a Rare American White Marble Bust of a Woman
By Thomas Ridgeway Gould
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818-1881) an extremely rare American White Marble Bust of A Woman, circa 1870.
Depicting a beautiful woman with her hair double row, braided in a bun. Very...
Category
19th Century Portraiture
Materials
Marble
Portrait of Bridget Drury Lady Shaw, formerly Viscountess Kilmorey
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – 1680 London)
Portrait of lady with a crown, possibly Bridget Drury Lady Shaw, formerly Viscountess Kilmorey, later Lady Baber (d.1696) c.1665
Oil on canvas
46 1/2 x 40 3/4 inches, Framed
42 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches, Unframed
Inscribed left [……….]Isabella
James Mulraine wrote the following for this piece:
This portrait dates to the middle of the 1660s, the decade when Lely’s career took off as successor to Sir Anthony van Dyck. At the Restoration Charles II had appointed him Principal Painter to the King and paid a pension £200 per annum ‘as formerly to Sr. Vandyke...’1 Lely had trained in Haarlem and he was in his early twenties when he came to London in 1643. He was an astute businessman and a wise courtier. In 1650 he painted a portrait of Oliver Cromwell (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) while maintaining links with the Royalist exiles through the 1650s. He had arrived in England as a painter of small-scale portraits and lush scenes of nymphs in landscapes in a Dutch style. His experience of Van Dyck in English collections transformed his painting. His lavish and alluring vision of Arcadia exactly captured the spirit of the Court and as Principal Painter he dominated English portraiture for the next twenty years. Lely ran a highly efficient studio along Netherlandish lines, employing a team of specialists like the drapery painter John Baptist Gaspars and young artists-in-training like Nicolas de Largilliere. He had numerous rivals during that period, and by 1670 he had introduced numbered standard poses to speed up production, while collaborating with printmakers for further revenue and advertising. He died in 1680 of a stroke while painting, working to the last.
The portrait, painted at a date when Lely’s poses and execution were still individual and inventive shows a lady sitting at three-quarter length facing away from the viewer. She has begun to turn towards the viewer, a pose with a long pedigree in art, first used by Leonardo da Vinci in the Mona Lisa (Louvre). She steadies her blue drapery where it might slip from her arm with the movement, a flash of realism beautifully captured. Like Van Dyck, Lely painted his female sitters in a timeless costume rather than contemporary fashion, showing a loose gown and floating silk draperies. It presented the sitter as a classical ideal. The portrait would not date.
The saffron dress may be the work of a drapery painter but the brown scarf must be by Lely himself, and appears unfinished, broadly sketched in behind the shoulder. The delicate blue glaze and nervous highlights suggest shimmering translucence. Lely was a master of painting hands – his hand studies are marvels of drawing – and the lady’s hands are superb, exactly drawn, delicately modelled and expressive. The fidgety gestures, clutching the gown, fiddling with the edge of the scarf, give the portrait psychological bite, suggesting the personality behind the calm courtier’s expression, adding to the sense shown in the look of the eyes and mouth that the lady is about to speak. The portrait’s language is Vandykian. The inspiration comes directly from Van Dyck’s English portraits of women. Lely owned Van Dyck’s Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Thimbleby and Dorothy Viscountess Andover (National Gallery, London) and the sitter’s costume quotes Lady Andover’s saffron dress and brown scarf. But Lely paints a generation who sat nearer to the ground and through a dialogue of expression and gesture he shows sitters who are more flesh and blood than Van Dyck’s.
The background with a column and curtain is different to those shown in most of Lely’s portraits of women. They tend to include trees or fountains, with a glimpse of landscape. But there are other examples. A portrait of the King’s reigning mistress, Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland...
Category
1660s Portraiture
Materials
Oil
Woman Listens to the Wind, America Martin, Abstracted Figurative Sculpture, 2017
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
Woman Listens to the Wind
Foam, Urethane Flex Coat, Industrial Bone White Paint and Redwood
79 inches x 48 inches x 24 inches
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Foam, Wood, Paint
"As Far as the Mind Can See" Hyper-realistic oil painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"As Far as the Mind Can See" is a 62in x 82in original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
Artist Statement // Life often strikes me as a string of moments, l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Shadow (from Myths)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A color screen print with diamond dust by Andy Warhol. "The Shadow" is a self-portrait print executed in a dark, bold palette of browns and blacks by American Pop Artist Any Warhol. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Screen
Mao, II.97
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
1972
Screenprint on Beckett High White paper
Image/sheet: 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 250
Signed and numbered on verso
Category
1970s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Screen
Ada Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in Fairfield, CT
Portfolio of ten 1-color etchings, hand-pulled on 300 gsm Somerset Satin White fine art paper. Edition 10/40. Plate size 9 x 9 in. Paper size 13 x 13 in.
Category
2010s Portraiture
Materials
Paper, Etching
Portrait of Sir Edward Littleton, First Baron Lyttleton, Old Masters Oil
By (After) Anthony Van Dyck
Located in London, GB
After Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Sir Edward Lord Littleton, First Baron Lyttleton (1589-1645)
Oil on canvas
Image size: 96 by 76 cm
Hand carved auricular frame
Sir Edward Littleton was Solicitor-General to Charles I, 1634-40; Chief Justice of Common Pleas, January 1640-January 1641; Lord Keeper, 1641-45.
Painted in his robes, and wearing the chain of office...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
John F. Kennedy, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in London, GB
John F. Kennedy, 1960 - Yousuf Karsh (Portrait Photography)
Signed on mount
Silver gelatin print mounted on card, printed by the artist of under his direct supervision
13 x 101/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of Yousuf Karsh, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was one of the most significant portrait photographers of the twentieth century. His portraits are easily recognisable for their bold use of studio lighting and closely cropped composition. Karsh’s photographs...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portraiture
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Outward Bound", Figurative Oil Painting, Nature, Woman by Water, Blue, Green
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative blue, green, brown, white, and beige painting titled "Outward Bound" is an original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Tania Mallet, 1961
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster...
Category
1950s Modern Portraiture
Materials
C Print
Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962
By Lucien Clergue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucien Clergue, French (1934 - 2014)
Title: Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962
Year: 1962 (printed 1992)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Sig...
Category
1960s Modern Portraiture
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moon #2 - Ruud van Empel (Colour Photography)
By Ruud van Empel
Located in London, GB
Moon #2 - Ruud van Empel (Colour Photography)
Signed, dated, inscribed with title and numbered on reverse
Archival pigment print
33 x 23 1/2 inches
Edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Archival Pigment
Up at Bat, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 10, 1940
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Price on Request.
The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 10, 1940
Category
1940s American Modern Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"What You See", Blue and Yellow Portrait Oil Painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original oil on canvas painting by Katherine Fraser. The piece ships in the pictured frame measuring 18.25”h x 16.5”w.
PRESS RELEASE // Paradigm Gallery is pleased to pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conversation
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Conversation" is a 53.5in x 67.25in original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
Artist statement // "Life often strikes me as a string of moments,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Always the Fool
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Always the Fool" is a 51.5in x 61.5in original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
"Life often strikes me as a string of moments, lik...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Andy Warhol, Polaroid Photograph of Grace Jones, 1984
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Grace Jones began her career as a model, working for fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She began her music career as ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portraiture
Materials
Polaroid
Donna Domitilla Ruspoli by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portraiture
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print
Lady Dormore - A 16th Century Portrait of a key member of Shakespeare's England
Located in London, GB
Lady Dormer, Mary Browne
c. 1592
oil on panel
35 x 29 inches, unframed;
41 x 34.75 inches, inc. frame
Inscribed 'Lady Dormore'
Mary married Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton who gave birth to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton - one of the great figures in Shakespears"s circle and founder of the Virginia company, developers of Virginia USA.
Henry Wriothesley, born 6 October 1573 at Cowdray House, Sussex, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, by Mary Browne, the only daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague, and his first wife, Jane Radcliffe.[5] He had two sisters, Jane, who died before 1573, and Mary (c. 1567 – 1607), who in June 1585 married Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour.[6]
After his father's death, Southampton's mother married firstly, on 2 May 1595, as his second wife, Sir Thomas Heneage (d. 17 October 1595), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, and secondly, between 5 November 1598 and 31 January 1599, Sir William Hervey. She died in November 1607.[7]
Early life
When his father died on 4 October 1581 Southampton inherited the earldom and landed income valued at £1097 6s per annum. His wardship and marriage were sold by the Queen to her kinsman, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, for £1000. According to Akrigg, Howard then "entered into some further agreement, of which no documentation can now be found, which transferred to Lord Burghley personally the custody and marriage of the young Earl, but left Howard holding his lands", and late in 1581 or early in 1582 Southampton, then eight years of age, came to live at Cecil House in the Strand.[8]
In October 1585, at age twelve, Southampton entered St John's College, Cambridge,[9] graduating M.A. on 6 June 1589.[10] His name was entered at the Gray's Inn legal society before he left the university, and he was admitted on 29 February 1588.[11]
On Southampton's 16th birthday, 6 October 1589, Lord Burghley noted Southampton's age in his diary, and by 1590 Burghley was negotiating with Southampton's grandfather, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague, and Southampton's mother, Mary, for a marriage between Southampton and Lord Burghley's eldest granddaughter, Elizabeth Vere, daughter of Burghley's daughter, Anne Cecil, and Edward de Vere...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portraiture
Materials
Oil
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson of Edinburgh
By Sir Henry Raeburn
Located in Miami, FL
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
Sir. Henry Raeburn ( Scottish 1756 - 1823 )
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
29x 24
Purchased, J Leger & Son,...
Category
18th Century Realist Portraiture
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Old Masters 18th Century Oil
By Thomas Hudson
Located in London, GB
Thomas Hudson
1701 – 1779
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Original carved giltwood frame
Hudson had many assistants, and employed the specialist drapery ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portraiture
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Konfyans
By Shawn Theodore
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This photograph titled "Konfyans" is an original artwork by Shawn Theodore measuring 60"h x 90"w. It is an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle rag paper. This collection debuted at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inka
By Chuck Close
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edition of 3
Archival watercolor pigment print on Hahnemühle rag paper
Category
2010s Portraiture
Materials
Pigment
3D Portrait of Woman: 'The Wanders I'
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portraiture
Materials
Mixed Media
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic Portraiture
Materials
Watercolor
European Artist - Indonesian Portraits of Mas Marco Kartodikromo, 1890-1932
Located in Amsterdam, NL
European artist (early 20th century)
Two study portraits of Mas MarCo Kartodikromo (1890-1932)
One inscribed Kartodikromo lower right
Framed in ebonized frame with white mount.
Pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portraiture
Materials
Crayon, Paper
La femme aux fleurs (Portrait de Mathilde See)
By Paul César Helleu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul César Helleu is regarded among the most sought-after society portraitists of his era, and his Belle Époque works rival those of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini. He is best remembered for capturing the era's most beautiful socialites, including Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Comtesse de Loriol Chandieu and the Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, among others. This work, however, stands out in that it captures the charming likeness of one of his art world cohorts, Mathilde See, a Parisian-born decorator and painter of floral still lifes. She is the essence of the modern woman, captured in her fashionable dress as she strolls along the flower-lined streets of Paris.
Commanding in size, Portrait de Mathilde See fully displays Helleu's mastery over the medium of pastel. The muted palette of greys and blues is typical of the artist, bringing a harmony and cohesiveness to the composition. Furthermore, Helleu cleverly alludes to See's own artistic output with a backdrop of vibrant floral blooms, enlivening the canvas and complementing the greens and blues of the peacock feather adorning her hat.
The portrait is all the more significant thanks to its provenance. It was previously in the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs and one-time owner of Sotheby's. Considering Taubman encountered some of the most noteworthy and beautiful works of art ever made through his auction house, the fact that he chose this portrait by Helleu to grace his collection is a testament to its import.
Born in Brittany in 1859, Helleu moved to Paris in 1876 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like so many other artists of his generation, he was trained there under the Academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme. That same year, he also attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition...
Category
20th Century Modern Portraiture
Materials
Linen, Pastel
Fine Late 19th Century Watercolour - Lucy
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and detailed watercolour portrait in the realist style, entitled 'Lucy, Early Period' from an inscription to the reverse. The artist has chosen to depict the sitter in profi...
Category
19th Century Portraiture
Materials
Watercolor