20 December 2020

18 December 2020

Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. The Ship of Fools (‘Het Narrenschip’/ ‘La Nef des fous’), ca. 1500 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).



Oil on oak: 58.1 x 32.8 cm. This panel, with ‘Allegory of Gluttony and Lust’ (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven), constituted the inside of a triptych that, when closed, revealed the ‘Wayfarer’ (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam). Restored in 2014-2015 by Agnès Malpel (Département des Peintures du musée du Louvre/ Bosch Research and Conservation Project). The panel had been subjected to overpainting, probably when it was presented as an autonomous painting. The foliage of the branch tied to the mast was considerably enlarged, and the water on which the vessel floats was significantly overpainted. A mountain that closed off the image on the right edge also proved to be a later addition.

Visit > Musée du Louvre, Paris.
More > Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch at Wikipedia.

7 December 2020

Rudolf Schlichter. Portrait of Bertolt Brecht (‘Bildnis Bert Brecht’), ca. 1926 (Lenbachhaus, Munich).



Oil on canvas: 75.5 x 46 cm. Recently united with the portrait of actor/ director wife Helene Weigel: here. Photo credit: Lenbachhaus/Viola Roehr-v. Alvensleben, München. 

Visit > Lenbachhaus, Munich.
More > Rudolf Schlichter at Wikipedia.

2 December 2020

Ramón Casas. Julia, ca. 1908 (private collection).



Oil on canvas: 81.5 x 65.5 cm. The artist’s wife. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, November 2012.

More > Ramón Casas at Wikipedia.

29 November 2020

Flora Yukhnovich. Le Mercredi - on s’habille en rose, 2017 (private collection).


Oil on linen: 170 x 240 cm. Flora Yukhnovich (2020): “We live in such an image-saturated time which I think has encouraged louder and more ostentatious aesthetics that feel similar to the Rococo sensibility for excess. I also think there is something quite Rococo about our celebrity culture, and the aspirational pleasure we take in watching the glamorous lives of the super-rich on reality TV”. 

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Visit > Flora Yukhnovich at: Brocket Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Parafin.

27 November 2020

Gottlieb Schick. Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker (‘Bildnis der Heinrike Dannecker’), 1802 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).



Oil on canvas: 119 x 100 cm. First wife of German sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker. This allusion to the French ‘tricolor’ seems to suggest sympathy for the French revolutionary ideals.

Visit > Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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More > Gottlieb Schick at Wikipedia.