Pierre Balmain Paintings

Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...

Figurative Ink on Cotton paper Painting N.1 'Vessels II' by Dmitry Samygin H.27 x 19.5 cm About Dmitry Samygin Furniture and Product Designer. His approach relies on simple forms and clarity in ideas with carefully chosen materials to expose the essence of an object. His products exemplify humanistic design, comfort in everyday use and ergonomic function. He is a prize-winner in international competitions. He has taken part in exhibitions in Paris, Milan and Moscow, collaborates with European and Russian production, architectural and design companies. Since 2021 Dmitriy's design has been presented in a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Moscow. Dmitry's graphics and designs are in private collections all over the world. Samygin's Awards 2023 I+D / Design Now / winner (product design & decor) 2021 Red dot / Modul 2021 I+D magazine award / Shelter (covers for the sculptures of Moscow State Architectural Museum) 2020 Best 2020 AD Russia 2019 Andrew World...

This oil painting on canvas, created by an artist from the 17th Century Flemish School, depicts one of the most significant scenes from Greco-Roman mythology: Aeneas saving his famil...

Oil on canvas 33 x 48 ½ inches; 840 x 1235 mm Painted c. 1793 Collections: George Romney; By descent to Elizabeth Romney (1832-1893), the artist’s granddaughter; Romney sale, Chris...

Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894) “Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614–1654) – Pan Plays to the Dance of the Putti, Oil Sketch (Modello) This oil sketch by the Flemish Baroque painter Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, a leading history painter in the Antwerp circle of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, shows Pan playing the flute to a ring of dancing putti and a young satyr. The attribution has been confirmed by Prof. Hans Vlieghe, and the work is published in the artist's catalogue raisonné (Axel Heinrich, 2003, cat. A 58). Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 cm (13 3/4 x 20 1/8 in) **The Composition** At the left edge, a dark-haired flute player sits in a recess hung with drapery; before him, a fallen bowl spills its water. On the right, five putti dance in a circle – the one on the left, with goat legs, identifiable as a young satyr. A dark mountain landscape fills the background beneath a sky lit by a rising or setting sun. The flute player is most readily read as Pan, god of shepherds and music, traditionally shown with his pipes, associated with dance and at home in the mountains of Arcadia. An interpretation as Bacchus, god of wine and ecstasy, is also possible: satyrs belong to his retinue, and the spilling water may allude to Lethe, the river of the underworld and symbol of oblivion. **An Oil Sketch in the Rubens Tradition** The partly unfinished execution reveals the work as a preparatory oil sketch (modello). Some passages, such as the flute player, are almost fully worked up, while the putti and the horizon are only indicated in outline. Such sketches, made in preparation for larger history paintings, are characteristic of the working practice of Rubens, Van Dyck and their collaborators. The sketch is closely related to Bosschaert's Children's Bacchanal in Kassel, in which a crowd of putti celebrates around the drunken infant Bacchus; the compositional structure and the treatment of the putti are strikingly similar. Further parallels appear in his Cupid with a Tamed Lion (Amor Triumphans) and in his oil sketch Venus Restraining Mars – Allegory of War, which features the same standing putto facing the viewer. The work also demonstrates Bosschaert's close stylistic affinity with Van Dyck. Van Dyck's Triumph of Bacchus shows comparable putti, the same concentration of figures on the right, a similar yellowish sky and a fallen bowl (there filled with fruit). His Rest on the Flight into Egypt likewise places a ring of dancing putti on the right, with the Holy Family in place of the flute player on the left. A possible model is a print by the Italian artist Giulio Carpioni (1613–1678), which shows a very similar composition in reverse: dancing putti, one of them a goat-legged satyr, beside a curly-haired flute player with goat's legs. This oil sketch is a significant addition to Bosschaert's oeuvre, illustrating both his spontaneous working method and his stylistic closeness to Van Dyck. Presented in a black ebonised profile frame with gilt slip. **The Artist** Born in Bergen op Zoom in 1614, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert trained in Antwerp under Gerard Seghers...

The Christ Child as Redeemer of the World Oil on Canvas, 69.3 x 49.7 cm Provenance Private Collection, Belgium The present painting is known in different versions. One of them is ...

Carlo Preda (Milan, Italy, 1651-1729) Title: Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 73 x 98 cm Painting without frame and not signed Expert...

A sawah landscape, Sumatra Signed and dated 'Sonnega '54' (lower right), and annotated 'Voor Jan de Bas 1-1-1970 / R de Bas' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 50,5x60,5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pieter de Bas (1909-1979) Mr de Bas was head of the MULO school and acting head of the HBS school in Medan. Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited: - Hotel de Boer, Medan 1954, where acquired by the first owner. The light I observed everywhere was of a special quality, fluorescent blue, shone from nowhere but radiated from every point, oddly with great depth and intensity. The light in an entirely different dimension came from nowhere and went nowhere shimmering with the glow of a bright blue jewel. The most important thing I discovered was of being omnipresent and able to understand everything at the same time, yes I could fathom creation completely. Auke Sonnega, born March 9, 1910 in Leeuwarden, known as the painter, primarily of young Balinese men and women. Originally raised in the reformed denomination, the parents of Auke apparently practised theosophy and their children, including Auke were taught these principles. The talent for drawing revealed itself at an early stage which in 1926 lead to a 4-year study of textile design at the Academy for Art and Craft in Amsterdam. He completed the academy in 1930 and worked in a carpet factory in Twente until 1934 and then followed in his sister Aafje’s footsteps leaving the Netherlands to go to the Dutch East Indies where in 1935 he started working as a graphic designer with an advertising bureau in Batavia. He was able to travel through Java and Bali on the motorbike that he brought with him from Europe, and was paid for his travelogue, enhanced with his own photo’s which appeared in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. In the 1930’s two Europeans, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet...

Shit happens sometimes. In this piece, the artist wanted to create an unsettling and claustrophobic space where people feel most private and vulnerable. Inspired by artist Tala Madani, she created a cartoon figure to act as the voyeur, a bright and unwelcome disturbance that cannot be ignored. Samantha Van Heest...

Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series, in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about th...

Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series, in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about th...

Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series, in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about th...

Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about the...

Pietro della Vecchia (Venice, Italy, 1603 - Vicenza, Italy, 1678) Title: Old man in a coat trimmed with fur Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 36.5 × 23 x 1.7 cm Paintin...