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Item Ships From: Louisiana
Reimago
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects hanging on walls, I augment art as a commodity and reconcile the conflict between the artificially assigned monetary value of artworks with the reality that they are simply swirls of paint. In this way, I am also acknowledging the literality of my own work.
I have also altered each copied painting to personalize the context of the pieces and address specific autobiographical ideas. These ideas relate to a range of both recent and distant experiences, both funny and sad.
Although my initial renderings are digital image composites, my medium of choice is oil paint, applied in transparent layers, using the image on the computer screen as a reference. In addition to its lush visual properties, I enjoy the flexibility of oil paint in making acute renderings as well as the evolution of the imagery from paint to digital and back to paint in further protracting both the distillation and evolution of form.
statement on piece
"The character Jame Gumb, from the 1991 film and 1988 book, The Silence of the Lambs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Washington's Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Madison Fats, Oils and Sweets
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 20h x 18w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Jefferson's Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dried Beans, Eggs, and Nuts
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Franklin's Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
George Washington
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: George Washington, George Washington Carver, the Spruce Goose, and a Victorious Tiger Woods
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Davie Crockett, Pecos Bill, the Bull Moose Party, and a Man Walking into Frame
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Memory Painting of Pawpaw
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Ralphy
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Acrylic
Chases Dirt
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Overseer
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Panel
Clutches
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Paint, Thread
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle By Edouard Léon Cortès
By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edouard Léon Cortès
1882-1969 French
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle
Signed “Edouard Cortès” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
French Post-Impressionist artist Edouard Léon Cortès captures one of the grand boulevards of Paris in this extraordinary oil on canvas. The subject is the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, an iconic Parisian thoroughfare that bustles with activity and vibrancy. Cortès perfectly evokes the vitality of the urban landscape at dusk, with the busy street and stylish pedestrians awash in the warm glow of lantern light and the setting sun.
Renowned for his vibrant canvases that capture the elegance and magic of The City of Lights, Cortès devoted his career to bringing the spectacle de la rue to life on canvas. His paintings express the romance and energy of a bygone Paris, and the fashionable boulevards of La Belle Époque have forever been immortalized in his oeuvre. Dubbed the “Parisian Poet of Painting,” Cortès possessed the uncanny ability to portray the very essence of his beloved city throughout the passing seasons and years. Though he painted the same streets time and time again, each work is unique in its narrative, perspective and atmosphere.
Raised in a prolific artistic environment, Cortès was an avid student of both his father, French painter Antonio Cortès and his older brother, Andre. The young artist was greatly influenced by his father and other famous artists who flocked to the picturesque town of Langly where Cortès was born. Maximilian Luce, Camille Pissaro and Lucien Pissaro...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Offering 2
Located in New Orleans, LA
Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by org...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Offering I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by org...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vessels and Universes #7
Located in New Orleans, LA
Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by org...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
If Stillness Were a Place
Located in New Orleans, LA
Using a unique process that combines painting and wood-carving, Oakland, Californa based artist Carmen McNall’s work balances intricate patterns and textured mark making bound by org...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Petite Mendiante By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Bouguereau
French 1825-1905
Petite Mendiante
(Little Beggar)
Signed “W. Bouguereau 1880” (center left)
Oil on canvas
William Bouguereau's faithful images of young women a...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Au Bord Du Ruisseau By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
1825-1905 French
Au Bord du Ruisseau
Signed and dated “W-Bouguereau-1888” (upper left)
Oil on Canvas
“Bouguereau’s paintings of children allowed for th...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Day On The Beach By Dorothea Sharp
By Dorothea Sharp
Located in New Orleans, LA
Dorothea Sharp
1874-1955 British
A Day on the Beach
Signed "Dorothea Sharp" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
British painter Dorothea Sharp captures the joyful spirit of childhood in t...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School Courting Pastoral Scenes, 18th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
French School
18th Century
Pastoral Scenes
Oil on canvas
A delightful pair of 18th-century pastoral scenes, this charming set of oil paintings depicts two quintessential tableaus ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boy Howdy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled drop cloth
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale paintings. Trained in art and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
Jeune femme à l’éventail (Young Girl with a Fan)
By James Tissot
Located in New Orleans, LA
Conjuring the brilliance of late 18th-century costume with infusions of 19th-century modernity, James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s Jeune femme à l’éventail illustrates the remarkable technique for which he was renowned. His delicate portraiture, combined with his fascination with conveying texture, demonstrates why he was one of the most revered artists of the Belle Époque.
Grouped with Tissot’s “keepsake pictures” of beautiful women in fashionable dress, this work is noteworthy not only for the fresh face of its sitter but also for the appearance of some of Tissot’s most beloved props. The delicate fan and paisley cashmere shawl, a favorite prop of Tissot’s artistic idol Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, made frequent appearances in his paintings, as did the exquisite dress the sitter wears. Its identifiable styling can be seen in several of Tissot’s most notable works of the period, including La chéminée and Un déjeuner à la riviere.
The playful feel of this painting is grounded by Tissot’s exceptional attention to detail. A master of conjuring an array of textures, Tissot showcased this ability in this composition by juxtaposing many types of fabrics and patterns within one costume. This intricacy, which he carried even to his depiction of the woman’s manicure and jewelry, set him on par with the best artists of his day and contributed to his commercial success.
Born in 1836 in the port town of Nantes, Tissot traveled to Paris at the age of 20 in order to join the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin...
Category
19th Century Realist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
The Sleuth By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1874-1951 | American
The Sleuth
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 2, 1906
Signed "JCLeyendecker" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
A debonair sleuth peers t...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Banquet" - Late 20th Century Framed Impressionist Figure Painting
By George Vuillard
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a superb oil-on-canvas copy by noted modern French artist George Vuillard of a famous painting by (also French) painter Jean-Louis Forain calle...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Gentleman By Frans Hals
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frans Hals
1582-1666 Dutch
Portrait of a Gentleman
(possibly Theodore Blevet)
Oil on panel
“Frans Hals is a colourist among the colourists...Frans Hals must have had twenty-seven blacks...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Le miroir Vénitien by André Brasilier
By André Brasilier
Located in New Orleans, LA
André Brasilier
B. 1929 French
Le miroir Vénitien
Signed "André Brasilier" (lower right)
Oil and pencil on canvas
Quiet and contemplative, French a...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
Modern Marlowe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
My conservative, Church of Christ grandmother lived in a pristine little mid-century modern house in the middle-of-no-where, Texas. Its trim, Protestant exterior belied a decadent mishmash of sculpted chocolate carpeting, and gold gilt Rococo furnishings inside. Strewn about the living room walls were frothy little reproductions of pearly, 18th century goddesses frolicking amid forests and streams--mocking the clean modern lines of the room. These prints of Bouchers and Fragonards were so pretty, so decorative, so innocuous in their style that it didn’t occur to me until years later when I studied them in college that they were lesbian love scenes. In these anodyne fetes, young women roiled, breasts and bottoms abounding, gazed into one another's doe eyes, and caressed fulsome cheeks. Though overtly erotic, their style was so decorative and soft that even my religiously conservative grandmother experienced no cognitive dissonance between the racy content and her religious beliefs. I find this tension between style and content, fascinating. The trio of paintings: The Summit of the Gods, Sea Gods, and Modern Marlowe are an exploration of it. I am unaware of any equivalent all male scenes from the Rococo period. This appears to be an inherent bias within the tradition. With this work, I am trying to pry open the tradition and make a space the male figure as decorative--pretty. I say "pretty" instead of "beautiful" because the "beautiful" can be threatening or challenging. "Pretty" is a term we generally apply to unambiguously attractive, comforting, and accepted things: flowers, puppies, babies, etc. I want to know if men can be pretty in the same way those 18th century goddesses are. I think I’ve made a pretty good visual argument for that perception. I'll know I've succeeded if the next generation of grandmas can host their women's bible study group in a living room hung with these paintings.
My grandmother likely bought these prints at about the time John Berger coined the truism: “Men act and women appear.” In one sense, this painting is asking if it is possible for men simply to appear, without a narrative justification. The mythological titles of this trio are intentionally vague enough to let the images reside mostly in a non-narrative context, placing emphasis on its aesthetics, not its story.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Reclining Nude (Framed Early 20th Century French Woman Portrait Painting)
By Constantin Font
Located in New Orleans, LA
A gorgeous nude by French artist Constantin Font (1890 - 1954), in wonderful condition and nicely framed. I missed one of his nudes at auction recently in England because the price went too high, so I was thrilled when this one came along from a British dealer...
Category
Early 20th Century Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Amants (The Lovers - 20th Century Antique Impressionist Figure Painting)
By L. B. Carayon
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of two framed companion paintings we have listed on 1stDibs (the other is called "Le Nouveau Chapeau") - a charming turn-of-the-century painting of lovers ("Amants") by French artist L. B. Carayon, rendered in either gouache or oil wash and graphite on paper. The companion piece is dated 1906, so almost surely the same date for this one. Definitely some Toulouse Lautrec and fin de siecle poster art going on...
Category
Early 1900s Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Tax Collectors attributed to Marinus van Reymerswaele
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marinus van Reymerswaele
c.1490 – c.1546 Dutch
The Tax Collectors
16th century
Oil on wood panel
Marinus van Reymerswaele stands among the greatest and most beloved artists of 16th-century Antwerp. Entitled The Tax Collectors, this oil on board original exudes the technical skill and life-like vibrancy for which the artist is renowned.
In a quiet interior scene, two men sit at a green table covered in coins, jewels, and empty moneybags. While the man in the red turban...
Category
16th Century Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le carnaval du sage by René Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in New Orleans, LA
René Magritte
1898-1967 Belgian
Le carnaval du sage
(The Sage’s Carnival)
Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre.
Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer.
The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Observations in Passing
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic
The Visit of the English Squadron to Le Havre
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Raoul Dufy
1877-1953 French
The Visit of the English Squadron to Le Havre
Signed "Raoul Dufy" (lower center)
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Growing up along the coastline of the...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
La Danse pyrrhique (Pyrrhic Dance)
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New Orleans, LA
This painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme entitled La Danse pyrrhique is among the most fascinating compositions ever composed by the Academic master’s hand. Gérôme’s iconic scenes of the East captivated a generation, and this work showcases all of the artist’s unparalleled talents. Set in the Ptolemaic period of Ancient Egypt, its depiction of the ritual Pyrrhic dance is vivid and striking. Beautifully painted and rich with detail, it represents the best of Gérôme’s famed Orientalist scenes.
In La Danse pyrrhique, Gérôme gives us a dramatic rendering of this ancient war dance. Greek in origin, it was performed by costumed dancers armed with swords who completed a series of movements set to music pantomiming combat. Homer wrote that Achilles performed this dance in a show of respect and grief at the funeral of his friend, Patroclus. When Julius Caesar introduced it to the Roman Games, its popularity spread across the Roman Empire to include Egypt, where Gérôme’s composition is set.
Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time in 1856, and he returned throughout the late 19th century when this work was created. Gérôme’s first-hand familiarity with this setting is evident in this piece, and his visual narrative is unlike any other. His paintings combine the rationalist style of historical paintings and the theatrical...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Après le bain (After the bath)
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Impressionism's pre-eminent figure painter, depicting the nude was an exercise in bringing the canvas to life. He once said, “I look at a nude, I see myriads of minuscule shades. I have to find those which will make the flesh on my canvas come to life and resonate.” This compelling portrait by Renoir entitled Après le bain presents the nude figure of a woman in a serene, private moment, absorbed in the task of drying herself after a bath. The artist’s mastery of light and shading is incredible, achieving a sense of vitality in this otherwise ordinary scene.
Renoir is celebrated for his figural work, especially his Rubenesque female nudes, however, it was not until the artist was in his forties that he depicted the nude with any frequency. In 1881, Renoir traveled to Italy, where he studied the works of the Renaissance masters and the ancient art of Pompeii and Rome. Upon his return to France, the nude became his favored subject, and he used the motif to combine the spontaneity of Impressionism with the solid modeling of classical painting. Renoir’s medium here, sanguine, a reddish-brown chalk, was used extensively in the Renaissance by Leonardo (who employed it in his sketches for the Last Supper), Michelangelo and Raphael. Its warm hue lends itself well to depicting flesh, and the chalk drawing allows for a greater focus on line, form and texture in a departure from the aspects of color and light that so often preoccupied the Impressionists. Après le bain conveys the impression of arrested motion with perfect naturalness, deftly capturing the moment before the elegant lines of the sitter's form change position.
The sitter is almost certainly Gabrielle Renard, the nanny to Renoir’s children and a frequent model for the artist. Gabrielle was the cousin of Renoir’s wife, Aline, and came to Montmartre to work for the family at the age of 16. She developed a strong bond with the family and became a favorite subject for Renoir, appearing in several of his most important works, including his 1911 Gabrielle with a Rose (Musée d'Orsay). When Renoir began to suffer from severe rheumatoid arthritis that would eventually leave him unable to walk and scarcely able to grasp a paintbrush, it was Gabrielle that would assist the artist by positioning the paintbrush between his crippled fingers.
Born in Limoges, France in 1841, Renoir began his career as an apprentice to a painter of porcelain wares. He later moved to Paris at the age of 21, enrolling at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. It was here, while studying under Charles Gleyre, that Renoir attained a tremendous appreciation for the academic style of painting, a quality that would last throughout his career. This was also when he met Claude Monet and several other classmates, with whom he would later form the Impressionists.
Working closely with Monet, Renoir began experimenting with the portrayal of light and its effect on his canvases. The youngest member of the Impressionist movement, an astute Renoir recognized how a subject was constantly changing due to the dynamic effects of light on color. Relying heavily upon his academic training that focused on composition, lines and descriptive details, Renoir distinguished himself among his contemporaries. His intuitive use of color and expansive brushstroke, along with acute attention to his subject, have placed him among the finest painters in history.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
Circa 1898
Canvas: 43 1/2" high x 35 1/2" wide
Frame: 57 3/4" high x 49 1/4" wide
Provenance:
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on January 25, 1899)
J. Pereire Collection, France (1966)
Sam Salz, New York (before 1981)
Claus Virch, Paris
French Compagny, Inc., New York
Larry Silverstein, New York (circa January 1987)
Le Clos de Sierne Gallery, Geneva
Galerie Heyram, Paris (October 1987)
Francis Gross
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Literature:
B. Schneider, Renoir, Berlin, 1957, p. 95 (illustrated in color, p. 83)
M. Gauthier, Renoir, Paris, 1958, p. 83 (illustrated in color; erroneously dated '1916' and titled 'Woman in her toilet')
F. Fosca, Renoir, L'homme et son obra, Paris, 1961, p. 280 (illustrated, p. 95; erroneously dated 'about 1890' and titled 'After the Bath...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Chalk
Baigneuses (Bathers)
By Louis-Joseph Courtat
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Academic painter Louis-Joseph Courtat displays his mastery of composition and the female form in this entrancing oil on canvas. Entitled Baigneuses, the work was painted for and exhibited at the 1885 Paris Salon, the foremost exhibition of painters in the Western world. Large in size, it captures two nude bathers within a tranquil beach scene. While the artist's skill for landscape painting is on display, it is his command of form, light and color that bring this canvas to life. The artist specialized in paintings that glorified the nude, and his skill is clear in the luminosity of his models' skin and the classical beauty of their form and proportions.
With their soft, undulating curves and flowing hair, Courtat's models reflect the two key influences on the young painter, that of the great Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres as well as his teacher Alexandre Cabanel. Like these two greats who came before him, Courtat similarly follows in the artistic tradition of the female nude that is traceable to classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.
Born in Paris in 1847, Courtat studied at the famed École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel. He was one of the Academic master's first students at the school, where he began to teach in 1864. Displaying considerable skill at an early age, Courtat won the Prix de Rome around 1870, and subsequently studied in Rome for a number of years. He returned to Paris in 1873 to make his debut at the Salon, where he was met with immediate success, receiving a third class medal. He received medals again in 1874 and 1875, a remarkable achievement for a painter of his age. In addition to the monumental nudes...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Panel with Satyr and Nymphs
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extraordinary Italian gouache and oil on canvas brings two of the most popular characters from Greek mythology vividly the life - the nymph and the satyr. Both creatures are famed for their carefree natures and lascivious temperaments, and tales abound of satyrs pursing nubile nymphs in order to rape or seduce them, usually with little success. One such narrative humorously unfolds in the present piece, which depicts an indignant satyr captured by three nymphs with a golden net.
The relationship between these two mythological creatures was a popular one for artists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, though its origins stretch back to antiquity. Both satyrs and nymphs...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
"Untitled" - Portrait of a Woman, Framed Modern Late 20th Century Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
A figure painting of a woman that falls in that magical zone between representation and abstraction. Wonderful coloration and treatment of light, along with quality of line. Gouache ...
Category
1980s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Chaos and its devolution
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Art Museum, in San Antonio, TX, Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center, and the Armory Art Center. Jenny Day represented at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
The artist says of her work...
I walked in the Mohave desert. Listened to the bees as they hummed and sucked from yellow creosote flowers. I watched the desert blur by as I drove eighty-miles per hour on I-40. I couldn’t hear the bees. The Mohave backdropped a science-fiction film I watched from my couch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Small Fires
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Univer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Canvas, Color Pencil
Double Portrait of King Frederik IV and Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow of D
Located in New Orleans, LA
When viewed straight on, this "turning picture" by French artist Gaspar Antoine de Bois-Clair appears to be a disorganized collection of painted facial features and wooden slats. However, when viewed at an angle from either side, two separate images are revealed — portraits of Frederik IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, the King and Queen of Denmark. A wonder of both portraiture and trompe l'oeil, this work demonstrates the artist's skill in rendering intriguing visual effects.
An impressive exercise in representing depth and 3-dimensionality in painting, the work is executed on a series of triangularly-cut strips of wood to create an effect now known as lenticular imaging...
Category
16th Century Academic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Panel
Suspicious Times / Pre-Collapse
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, spray paint on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Feather II
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Feather V
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Robin Nest II
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Murmuration, Rome 2015
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Murmuration, 2016
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Sugar Maple Tree, Summer
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Wentletrap Shell
By Mitchell Lonas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incised painted aluminum.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Liana
By Sibylle Peretti
Located in New Orleans, LA
Phototransfer on engraved, painted plexiglass
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
I Search in Snow II
By Sibylle Peretti
Located in New Orleans, LA
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
I Search in Snow IV
By Sibylle Peretti
Located in New Orleans, LA
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
I Search in Snow V
By Sibylle Peretti
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kiln formed glass, engraved with silvered paper.
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Untwinned Horn: Centaurus
By Norah Lovell
Located in New Orleans, LA
Series of twelve, sold individually
Category
Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Master of Hounds
By Norah Lovell
Located in New Orleans, LA
Category