Wiktor Korecki - Walk in the Rain

July 19, 2020, 12:25 am

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Wiktor Korecki (Kamianets-Podilskyi, 1890 - Komorów, 1980) studied at the Nikolai Muraszka Drawing School in Kiev. In 1921 he moved to Warsaw, where he opened his own studio. It burned down during the Warsaw Uprising, and with it many of his works. In 1946 he settled in Komorów, from where he moved to Milanówek. The theme of his paintings were mainly moody landscapes and influenced by the paintings of Józef Chełmoński and Józef Rapacki.

[Desa Unicum, Warsaw - Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 32.5 cm]

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July 19, 2020, 12:25 am

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Jan Lievens - Woman Embraced by a Man [c.1626-27]

July 20, 2020, 12:25 am

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Jan Lievens - Woman Embraced by a Man [c.1626-27]

In a moment of total and unbridled pleasure, an amorous couple embraces as an ebullient young gentleman smiles longingly at his partner, and she in turn smiles directly at the viewer. Jan Lievens painted this early masterpiece in circa 1626-1627, when he was only around twenty years old, but already a fully-fledged and commercially successful artist in Leiden, where he worked alongside his friend and budding rival Rembrandt. While Rembrandt excelled in depicting his subjects’ psychology, Lievens painted large, bold canvases with life-size figures that demonstrate the freedom and confidence of his style. The two artists both studied with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, depicted similar themes in their early works in Leiden, and even appear in one another’s paintings, in fact the model for the young man Lievens portrayed in this carefree attitude was almost certainly Rembrandt.

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 97 x 84 cm]

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Tang Wei Min - Winter Night [2011]

July 20, 2020, 12:26 am

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Tang Wei Min was born in Yong Zhou, Hunan Province in 1971. He graduated from the Art Department of Hunan Standard College, where he majored in Oil Painting in 1991. Since then he has worked as a professional oil painter.

[Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 147 x 92 cm]

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Russell James - Sara Blue Pool [2016]

July 20, 2020, 12:28 am

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Russell James is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. Russell was born in Western Australia and spent much of his childhood moving from city to city due to his working class father. After dropping out of school at age 14, Russell got his first job working in a factory that made trashcans.

[Nomad Two Worlds Gallery, New York - C print, 60 x 45 cm]

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July 20, 2020, 12:28 am

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Lawrence Stephen Lowry - The Cripples [1949]

July 20, 2020, 11:59 pm

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Lawrence Stephen Lowry - The Cripples [1949]

According to Lowry, ‘The thing about painting is there should be no sentiment. No sentiment.’ Several of the figures in The Cripples were well known characters around Manchester. When his friend David Carr doubted that Lowry could have seen so many of them, Lowry persuaded Carr to drive him from Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester to Rochdale. On this journey they supposedly counted 101 memorable figures. Another friend, Hugh Maitland, surprised Lowry by declaring he felt there was no compassion in these late paintings. Lowry replied ‘I was sorry for them, and at the same time realising that there was really no need to be sorry for them because they were quite in a world of their own.’

[Lowry Collection, Salford - Oil on canvas, 76 x 101.5 cm]

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Clément Serveau - The Brothel

July 21, 2020, 12:00 am

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Clément Serveau (Paris, June 29, 1886 - July 8, 1972) was a French painter, designer, engraver and illustrator. Clément-Serveau produced works in a realist manner early on, but soon became interested in the new movements.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on panel, 89.8 x 95.3 cm]

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July 21, 2020, 12:01 am

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Workshop of Jan Sanders van Hemessen - The Tearful Bride

July 21, 2020, 11:46 pm

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Workshop of Jan Sanders van Hemessen - The Tearful Bride

The prototype of this composition, dating from around 1540, is in the National Gallery in Prague. The present version is a slightly later variant, for which the bride’s cherry wreath has been replaced for a floral wreath.

[Palais Dorotheun, Vienna - Oil on panel, 66.2 x 78 cm]

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Wolfgang Krodel - The Ill Matched Lovers [1528]

July 21, 2020, 11:47 pm

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Wolfgang Krodel - The Ill Matched Lovers [1528]

Wolfgang Krodel (Schneeberg, c.1500 - 1561) was apprenticed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and worked in his studio for several years. The vast majority of his known works are derived or copied from Cranach and the present work is no exception; Cranach painted numerous versions on this theme, the closest of which to Krodel's own rendition is probably that in the National Museum, Warsaw. Krodel was widely patronised in Saxony and he eventually set up his own studio there, specifically in Schneeberg in the Ore mountains.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on panel, 46.2 x 41 cm]

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July 21, 2020, 11:48 pm

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Maurice Askenazy - Nude with a Japanese Folding Screen [c.1935]

July 23, 2020, 12:15 am

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Maurice Askenazy - Nude with a Japanese Folding Screen [c.1935]

[Heather James Fine Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 81.3 cm]

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Marianne North - Japan

July 23, 2020, 12:16 am

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Marianne North (Hastings, October 24, 1830 - Alderley, August 30, 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

[National Trust, Gawthorpe Hall - Oil on canvas, 58 x 43 cm]

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Walter Ernest Webster - Japanese Fan [c.1909]

July 23, 2020, 12:17 am

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Walter Ernest Webster - Japanese Fan [c.1909]

Born in Manchester in 1878, the son of a manufacturer, Walter Ernest Webster won a scholarship to the National Art Training Schools (which became the Royal College of Art) and later attended the Royal Academy Schools. His first success was in 1912 when he was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Salon, and he went on to receive silver medals in 1913 and 1914, and eventually a gold in 1931. Renowned chiefly for his skill as a figure and portrait painter, his works were particularly popular amongst American collectors. Webster was also a prolific and respected illustrator for magazines.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm]

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July 23, 2020, 12:18 am

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Ivan Choultsé - Wisteria in Dappled Sunlight

July 24, 2020, 12:08 am

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Ivan Choultsé - Wisteria in Dappled Sunlight

Ivan Choultsé (Saint Petersburg, October 21, 1874 - Nice, 1939) was a Russian landscape realistic painter.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 46 x 37.8 cm]

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William Kay Blacklock - Sunlight and Shadow

July 24, 2020, 12:10 am

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William Kay Blacklock - Sunlight and Shadow

Born in Sunderland, William Kay Blacklock (1872 - 1924) painted landscape and genre works in both oil and watercolour, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1897-1918 and at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He was trained at the Royal College of Art, and lived consecutively in Sunderland, London and Edinburgh, before establishing himself in Leicester with his wife and fellow artist, Nellie Blacklock.

Blacklock often depicts his sitters engaged in quiet activity, and this is evident in the present lot, where the artist paints a beautiful young woman dressed in pink and sewing outside on a summer's day. The title Sunlight and Shadow refers to the dappled light deftly captured by the artist filtering through the trees and illuminating the sitter and the dog, sleeping at her feet.

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 77.2 cm]

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