Sunday, December 2, 2018

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977)

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977), Soviet artist. Proof that socialist realism could actually be rather good, and infinitely preferable to the horrors of most western modernist art.

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977), New Moscow, 1937

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977),  Wedding in Tomorrow Street, 1962

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977),  Kizhi, Ancient Beauty

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977), The Pane of Glass, 1966

Monday, November 19, 2018

Ramon Casas (1866-1932)

Ramon Casas (1866-1932), Spanish painter.

Ramon Casas, A Decadent Girl, 1899

Ramon Casas, La Sargantaine, c. 1907, portrait of Júlia Peraire

Ramon Casas, Female Nude
Ramon Casas, Au Moulin de la Galette

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933)

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933), Hungarian painter.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Ahasuerus at the End of the World, 1888

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, The Souls of Acheron, 1898

Friday, September 7, 2018

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1948-1884)

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1948-1884), French painter.

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, 1879

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc, 1879

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Ophelia, 1881

Friday, August 10, 2018

Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

Charles Robinson (1870-1937), British painter and illustrator.

Charles Robinson, title unknown

Charles Robinson, title unknown

Friday, July 13, 2018

Konstantin Somov (1869-1939)

Konstantin Somov (1869-1939), Russian symbolist painter.

Konstantin Somov, Date at Night

Konstantin Somov, Harlequin and Death, 1907

Konstantin Somov, Masquerade

Konstantin Somov, Blue Bird, 1918

Monday, April 30, 2018

Wilhelm Gallhof (1878-1918)

Wilhelm Gallhof (1878-1918), German painter.

Wilhelm Gallhof, The Coral Necklace, c1917

Wilhelm Gallhof Die Versuchung des Ritters, 1910

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), American landscape painter, a major figure in the Hudson River School.

Frederic Edwin Church, El Khasne, Petra

Frederic Edwin Church, Chimborazo Volcano, 1884

Frederic Church, The Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb. and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, 1868

Frederic Edwin Church, Al Ayn (The Fountain), 1882

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960)

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960), American pin-up artist and illustrator.

Charles Gates Sheldon, The Glorified American Girl, Calendar Illustation for Brown & Bigelow, 1930 

Charles Gates Sheldon, Sailor Girl, 1928

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, Masquerade Ball, 1920

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom (1857-1923)

Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom (1857-1923), German painter.

Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom, Poseidon und die Nereiden, before 1920.

Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom, Reclining female nude, 1892

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Louis Courtat (1840-1909)

Louis Courtat (1840-1909), French painter.

Louis Courtat, Odalisque

Thursday, February 1, 2018

banned painting of the week - Hylas and the Nymphs

John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896.

Under feminist pressure the painting has now been removed from Manchester Art Gallery in England.



Sunday, January 14, 2018

Eduard Ansen-Hoffmann (1820-1904)

Eduard Ansen-Hoffmann (1820-1904), Dutch painter.

Eduard Ansen-Hoffmann (1820-1904), title unknown

Eduard Ansen-Hoffmann (1820-1904), Abendliche Träume

Eduard Ansen-Hoffmann (1820-1904), Odalisque