Art Appreciation

[Boucher]

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Boucher, I love the way Joe uses color. Who were his influences, do you know?
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Never really asked though I suppose he appreciates the work of Fern Coppedge among others.

Fern Coppedge  "The Upper Delaware"  c.1930  24x24  oil on canvas

   

[BellisimaJ.]

I LOVE that, Boucher!!

[BellisimaJ.]

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Mary Cassatt,1880    "Lydia Seated in the Garden With A Dog On Her Lap"    10.8x16    Oil on Canvas

 

[BellisimaJ.]

Boucher, When I googled The XX gallery, this article on Bearden came up --one of the paintings is from the gallery I told you about. I remember that collage!
Excellent article!

http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/s...index.html

[BellisimaJ.]

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Marilyn Simandle    "Capri"    9X12    Watercolor on Paper

[BellisimaJ.]

Decided to include news in the world of art.

Art sales: Nazi loot provides rich pickings

Examples from the largest known collection of Old Master paintings stolen by the Nazis are to go on view at Christie's in New York next week, before being sold on April 19. But a large part of the proceeds will go to paying mounting bills accumulated by lawyers and researchers on the project.

St Lucy by Jacopo del Casentino, art sales
Jacopo del Casentino's piece, valued at £400,000 to £600,000

The Goudstikker collection, as it is known, was effectively stock belonging to the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who fled Amsterdam for America in May 1940 in the face of the German invasion. One of Europe's pre-eminent dealers in Old Master paintings, he left behind some 1,400 works, half of which were snapped up by Hermann Goering for his collection.

Goudstikker, however, never made it to America. Having boarded the last boat out of Holland with his wife and baby son, he fell down a deck hatch and died the night after leaving port.

Goudstikker was buried in Liverpool, but from his pocket was retrieved a little black notebook that listed his stock of paintings in detail.

That notebook, together with the lavishly illustrated catalogues he produced, were to prove the foundation of what art detective Clemens Toussaint describes as "the most comprehensive research project ever to track down a single-owner art collection stolen by the Nazis". For the past five years, a team of art historians has been working full-time for Toussaint, tracking the missing paintings.

The largest haul so far has been more than 200 paintings from Dutch museums, some of which will be in the New York sale.

After the war, Goudstikker's widow discovered that many of his paintings had been handed over to Dutch state museums, but her attempts to recover them were rebuffed. It was only in 1997, after both she and her son had died, that her daughter-in-law, Marei von Saher, resurrected the claim after a tip-off from a Dutch journalist. For the next eight years, she and her lawyers battled in the Dutch courts until February last year, when the Dutch government finally relented, agreeing to return 206 paintings. Estimates of more than £50 million were placed on the collection, but much of that will be needed to pay for the restitution costs.

continue reading here......

[BellisimaJ.]

http://drawergeeks.com/Kid_Creatures/Kid_Creatures.html

[mandy]

The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color… or perhaps, how they inspire us with color.

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06...-painting/

[BellisimaJ.]

Great article, Mandy! I always marvel at how much some of the artists (prior to the 18th century) were able to achieve using many fewer and less vibrant pigments than we now have access to.

[BellisimaJ.]

Art?

Not my thing, but probably art, nevertheless.