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Charles Spencelayh - Listening In [c.1933]

May 28, 2019, 12:05 am
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Charles Spencelayh - Listening In [c.1933]
This work depicts an old man listening attentively to a startlingly modern wireless through a pair of head phones. His posture is rigid with amazement as he listens. The domestic interior dense with paintings and ornaments is characteristic of the artist. His son Vernon recounted: 'in his studio he would build on frames the room, sometimes even wall-papers, and hang the walls with what one could expect in a cottage of that date. He had rooms full of such junk.’ Spencelayh's early training as a miniature painter is evident from the highly detailed technique of the painting.

[Tate Gallery - Oil on wood, 17.8 x 23 cm]
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May 28, 2019, 12:06 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Helene Schjerfbeck - Young Woman (Ung kvinna) [1929]

May 28, 2019, 11:53 pm
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Helene Schjerfbeck - Young Woman (Ung kvinna) [1929]
This was painted at the time when Helene Schjerfbeck lived in Ekenäs (Tammisaari). She moved there in 1925 and around the years 1928 to 1930 she was very interested in painting elegant ladies. Many of them had features related to her young relative Dora Estlander. Internationally renowned expert on Helene Schjerfbeck, Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, has pointed out that this work also probably owes a lot to the Japanese woodblock prints that Schjerfbeck was impressed by, particularly if you look at the elegant curve of the nose which has features related to the Utamaro beauties.

[Bukowski’s Auctions - Oil on canvas, 32 x 30 cm]
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Nicolai Fechin - The Little Girl

May 28, 2019, 11:56 pm
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Nicolai Fechin - The Little Girl
Nicolai Fechin (1881 - 1955) was born in Kazan, in eastern Russia, and at nineteen entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. There he was drawn to the powerful portraits of Ilya Repin, and to the rapid, slashing brushwork of Fillip Andreevich Malavin. He graduated in 1909 with a travelling fellowship that took him to the artistic capitals of Europe. He was soon exhibiting internationally. This work features the artist's daughter, Eya.

[Doyle Auctions, New York - Oil on canvas, 61 x 51.1 cm]
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May 28, 2019, 11:57 pm
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Unknown Artist - Burning of the Houses of Parliament -

May 30, 2019, 12:00 am
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[Saint Louis Art Museum - Oil on canvas, 45.4 x 61 cm]

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May 30, 2019, 12:02 am
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons [1835]
On the night of October 16, 1834, fire consumed the Houses of Parliament in London. Londoners gathered along the banks of the river Thames to gaze in awe at the horrifying spectacle. Initially, a low tide made it difficult to pump water to fire-fighting equipment on land; likewise, it hampered steamers towing fire-fighting equipment up the river. Although the tides eventually shifted, the effort was futile, as the fire burned uncontrollably for hours. Turner records this as the steamers in the lower-right corner head toward the flames. Although Turner based the painting on an actual event, he used the disaster as the starting point to express man’s helplessness when confronted with the destructive powers of nature, here dissolved in brilliant swaths of colour and variable atmospheric effects that border on abstraction.

[Cleveland Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 92 x 123.2 cm]
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May 30, 2019, 12:02 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Hamish Blakely - Back By Popular Demand [2019]

May 30, 2019, 11:56 pm
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Hamish Blakely - Back By Popular Demand [2019]
"This is the third Union Jack piece completing the trio of my Britannia goddesses, I wanted these pieces to look as classic as possible with any elements of contemporary culture depicted with as much subtlety as possible. They say the camera never lies, but it can misrepresent in the blink of a shutter. Perhaps our grand Britannia knows the deeper truth but she is happy to play the game."

[Castle Fine Art, London - Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.9 cm]
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Hamish Blakely - Britannia Bares All [2019]

May 30, 2019, 11:58 pm
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Hamish Blakely - Britannia Bares All [2019]
"The flame-haired goddess tilts back to give her followers the best view she can manage in a gesture of unashamed pride. It is a powerful, dramatic statement that also has a good dash of sensuality with a real classical treatment but a contemporary feel. The three Union Jack pieces form of a sort of triptych and develop the idea and character in this theme, the light background complements the dark backdrop of the other two flag pieces."

[Castle Fine Art, London - Oil on canvas, 121.9 x 97 cm]
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Hamish Blakely - Britannia So Proud [2019]

May 31, 2019, 12:00 am
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Hamish Blakely - Britannia So Proud [2019]
"This is the very first Union Jack piece in the series, this really kick-started the whole collection. The lady posing for her fans (one would hope that Britannia has many) cannot exclude herself from the new public demand; that is, the same people who want to look up to you also want you knocked off your pedestal. She understands the changing times, and Britannia graciously gives her adoring followers what they want.”


[Castle Fine Art, London - Oil on canvas, 112 x 86.1 cm]
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May 31, 2019, 12:00 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Wassily Kandinsky - Le Rond Rouge [1939]

June 1, 2019, 12:07 am
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Wassily Kandinsky - Le Rond Rouge [1939]
Painted in Paris in 1939, Le Rond Rouge, conveys the viewer into the realm of pure aesthetic expression. The exquisite arrangement of the composition's forms and colours represents Kandinsky’s final phase of development at a time when the Surrealists dominated the cultural topography and the city of Paris was a hotbed of creative rivalry.

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm]
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Fernand Léger - The Syphon [1924]

June 1, 2019, 12:08 am
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Fernand Léger - The Syphon [1924]
[Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York - Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 46 cm]
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June 1, 2019, 12:09 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Richard Dadd - Sir Alexander Morison [1852]

June 2, 2019, 12:39 am
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Richard Dadd - Sir Alexander Morison [1852]
Hat in hand, as if bidding farewell, Alexander Morison, a pioneer of psychiatric medicine, stands before his estate in Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. This portrait was painted at the end of Morison's seventeen years as consultant to Bethlem Asylum in Surrey. The artist, Richard Dadd, was one of Morison's patients. He had murdered his father believing him to be the devil. Dadd (English, 1819 - 1887), hospitalised at Bethlem, did not visit Scotland, but based his image on a sketch by Morison's daughter. The two tiny women are fishwives, and are probably based on photographs taken by Hill and Adamson.

[National Galleries of Scotland - Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 61.3 cm]
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John Everett Millais - Sisters [1868]

June 2, 2019, 12:41 am
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John Everett Millais - Sisters [1868]
Sisters was Millais's prime contribution to the important Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of 1868 in which the nascent Aestheticism movement cemented its presence on the London art scene. The artist attempted to solidify his reputation as a nimble and advanced portraitist with this painting of his three eldest daughters in matching white dresses, against a bombastic backdrop of blooming garden foliage. It represents the artist's continued interests in the evolving English Aesthetic movement, his promotion of the artistic tradition of eighteenth-century British portrait painting as part of the broader Georgian revival in the arts of the period, as well as a sophisticated realist response to transformations of classicism in contemporary British art.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 108 x 108 cm]
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June 2, 2019, 12:41 am
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Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational vehicle. 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. Please note that the nude figure is a tradition in Western Art and is included within the gallery’s collection.
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Iosif Krachkovsky - Poppies [1909]

June 3, 2019, 12:14 am
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Iosif Krachkovsky - Poppies [1909]
Iosif Krachkovsky (1854 - 1914) was a Russian landscape painter.

[MacDougall’s Fine Art Auctions - Oil on canvas, 66.5 x 95.5 cm]
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Karen Wilson - Daisy Meadow

June 3, 2019, 12:16 am
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Karen Wilson - Daisy Meadow
Karen Wilson (born 1960) has painted all of her life, the catalyst being the gift of oil paints at an early age. Karen still has an oil painting that she painted at the age of 12 years old. Her paintings are predominantly still life, landscapes, seascapes or interiors in her favourite medium of oils. Working with a palette knife, her paintings are characterised by vigorous thick buttery slashes of colour, with highlights of heavy impasto paint on areas where pigment is otherwise barely staining the canvas.

[Art World Gallery, Falmouth - Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm]
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