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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - An Ox-Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows [1868]

May 15, 2017, 12:22 am
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - An Ox-Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows [1868]

Painted in 1868, An Ox-Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows is one of the more unusual works by Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900) in terms of subject matter to appear at auction in recent years. A female figure undresses on an ox-drawn cart while her male companion is already swimming in the sea. Beyond, a ship lies anchored close to the shore.

[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 76 cm]
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Iosif Evstafevich Krachkovsky - Spring in Crimea [1904]

May 15, 2017, 12:24 am
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Iosif Evstafevich Krachkovsky - Spring in Crimea [1904]

In the late 1890s and early 1900s Krachkovsky (1854 - 1914) painted many views of fruit trees in bloom in Crimea. These were often commissions from the highest members of the Imperial Family, including Tsar Nicholas II and his mother Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna who would spend the summers at their palace at Livadia. These Crimean views were equally popular with the public in both Russia and Europe and were exhibited at Krachkovsky's solo exhibitions in Paris, Nice and St Petersburg.

[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 71 cm]
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May 15, 2017, 12:25 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational website dedicated to the exhibition of art. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download images for purely non-commercial purposes. If you feel that your copyright has been infringed, please contact the gallery immediately.
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Paul Gustav Fischer - Bathers on a Beach

May 15, 2017, 11:47 pm
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Paul Gustav Fischer - Bathers on a Beach

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122.5 cm]
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Bathsheba (Bethsabée)

May 15, 2017, 11:49 pm
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Bathsheba (Bethsabée)

[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 100 cm]
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May 15, 2017, 11:50 pm
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Lucien Simon - Evening Conversation in Kergaït [1901]

May 16, 2017, 11:49 pm
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Lucien Simon - Evening Conversation in Kergaït [1901]

Lucien Simon (1861 - 1945) was a French painter and teacher born in Paris.

[Nationalmuseum, Stockholm - Oil on canvas, 140 x 190 cm]
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Vincent van Gogh - Evening (after Millet) [1889]

May 16, 2017, 11:51 pm
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Vincent van Gogh - Evening (after Millet) [1889]

[Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 74.2 x 93 cm]
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May 16, 2017, 11:51 pm
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Marc Chagall - Blue Vase with Two Baskets of Fruit (Le Vase bleu aux deux corbeilles de fruits)

May 17, 2017, 11:57 pm
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Marc Chagall - Blue Vase with Two Baskets of Fruit (Le Vase bleu aux deux corbeilles de fruits)

The composition is dominated by the vibrant energy of the magnificent still life in the foreground, allowing a double figure of lovers in the upper right corner to peacefully emerge from the soft, dreamlike atmosphere that pervades the rest of the canvas. Brides and grooms are a recurring theme within Chagall’s oeuvre throughout the span of his eighty-year career, and are often depicted as they are in the present work: the groom tenderly wraps his arms around his bride whose white dress, veil and flowers imply a certain innocence and purity. Chagall’s happy and powerful relationship with his first wife Bella had a great influence on his life and artistic career.

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 37.6 x 60.9 cm]
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Henry Golden Dearth - The Black Hat (Miss Dorothy Hart) [1916]

May 17, 2017, 11:59 pm
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Henry Golden Dearth - The Black Hat (Miss Dorothy Hart) [1916]

[Indianapolis Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm]
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May 17, 2017, 11:59 pm
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Alfred Stevens - Visit to the Studio [1891]

May 18, 2017, 11:41 pm
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Alfred Stevens - Visit to the Studio [1891]

Alfred Stevens was one of the first painters to respond to the European fascination with the art of Japan. He did not adopt their stylistic modes but incorporated Japanese objects, often from his own collection, into the décor of his paintings. At the right of this studio scene is a Japanese folding screen typical of the many panels that found their way into European interiors. The two well-dressed visitors are viewing one of Stevens' own impressionistic seascapes, a painting on the progressive edge of a career that manifested a lingering commitment to more traditional academic art.

[Indianapolis Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 100 x 65.4 cm]
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Katherine H. Wagenhals - The Visitor [1916]

May 18, 2017, 11:42 pm
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Katherine H. Wagenhals - The Visitor [1916]

A Pennsylvania native, Katherine Wagenhals (1883 - 1966) studied at Smith College and at the Art Students League in New York and at the Académie Moderne in Paris before making her way to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There she may have taught t the Fort Wayne School of Art with her talented relatives the printmakers Jessie and Norah Hamilton.

This prim lady in a blue suit and rather assertive bonnet won Wagenhals the Art Association of Indianapolis Purchase Prize in 1916. Although the genteel setting falls within the tradition of interiors painted by the Boston School artists, the thick, simple strokes used to suggest the visitor’s hands show Wagenhals’ familiarity with bolder painting styles. The tidy background of straight lines and 90 degree angles reinforces the impression of propriety. If not for the sitter’s intelligent expression and alert bearing, the door in the background might be interpreted as a symbol of a highly desired departure rather than a welcome arrival.

[Indianapolis Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 51.1 cm]
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May 18, 2017, 11:44 pm
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Jean-François Millet - Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent [1841]

May 20, 2017, 1:12 am
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Jean-François Millet - Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent [1841]

Before Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) achieved international success as a painter of peasant life, he earned his early living as a portraitist. Here, he depicted Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, the wife of his lifelong friend Félix-Bienaimé Feuardent, a clerk in the library at Cherbourg. In this portrait painted shortly after her marriage, Louise-Antoinette prominently displays her wedding band on her left hand. In a style reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Millet painted the modestly dressed sitter against a plain background using a limited palette. Louise-Antoinette looks out of the picture, her brown eyes calmly assessing the viewer. Through a tightly controlled composition and a careful balance of monochromatic tones, Millet captured Louise-Antoinette's self-containment, reserve, and poised composure.

[Getty Centre, Los Angeles - Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 60 cm]
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Louis Charles Moeller - The Dubious Tale

May 20, 2017, 1:17 am
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Louis Charles Moeller - The Dubious Tale

[Heritage Auctions - Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 121.9 cm]
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May 20, 2017, 1:17 am
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Carl Erik Törner - Paper Boy

May 21, 2017, 12:24 am
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Carl Erik Törner - Paper Boy

Carl Erik Törner (1862 - 1911) was a Swedish artist. He studied at the Konstakademien (The Royal Academy of Arts) in Stockholm from 1880-1882 and then continued his studies in Germany and Paris. He became a member of the Konstnärsförbundet (a Secessionist movement) and showed at exhibitions organised by the group in the 1880's in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

[Bukowski’s Auctions, Helsinki - Oil on canvas, 45 x 38 cm]
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European School - Group of Women as Allegories of the Four Seasons [18th century]

May 21, 2017, 12:27 am
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European School - Group of Women as Allegories of the Four Seasons [18th century]

In this enchanting painting a group of six women, one a generation older than the others, are pictured at half-length, close to the picture plane and to each other, some with arms around the others and all looking straight at the viewer. Cupid climbs over the shoulder of the woman at far right, leading the viewer to initially believe that she represents Venus, in which case the fire she holds her hand over could represent a flaming heart. 

Upon closer inspection, however, four of the women appear to represent allegories of the seasons. The one on the far left holding grapes is Autumn; the woman next to her, holding wheat, is summer; Spring is the woman to the right of centre, holding flowers; and the woman on the right, rather than representing Venus, would be Winter, wrapped in a warmer cloak than the others and holding her hand over a fire for warmth.  This theory then shifts Venus to be the woman at centre of the painting, gracefully holding the golden apple awarded to her by Paris.

The older woman standing behind Venus, however, remains a mystery, as does the artist of this beautifully preserved, unlined painting. Likely from the early to mid-18th century, an attribution and even a location has eluded scholars. While many believe the picture to be French, it has also been suggested that it is Viennese or German.  Louis de Silvestre, the French artist who worked at the court in Dresden in the first half of the 18th century, is a name that has been suggested, though scholars have yet to come to a consensus.  

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on unlined canvas, 86.5 x 125.3 cm]
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