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Showing posts with label Subject: interior/ domestic. Show all posts

29 September 2021

Jan Brueghel the elder. Visit to the Tenants (‘Besuch auf dem Pachthof’), ca. 1597 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.

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31 July 2021

Matthias Weischer. TV Tower (‘Fernsehturm’), 2004 (private collection).


Mixed media on canvas: 200 x 290 cm(!). Auctioned at Christie’s London, June 2013. Matthias Weischer (2015): “I was working for a while on the interiors that had these psychological moments - you have this clear space and all the objects standing around, and you could derive a meaning from them, or not. There were strong connotations to the objects. I was playing for a long time with these possibilities of the interior and these relationships of the objects to each other”.

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5 June 2021

Neil Stokoe. Two Figures, vertical Blind, red Chair and green Floor, 1983 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 203.3 x 241.2 cm. Auctioned at Phillips Auctions London, December 2019. Neil Stokoe (2015): “Having lived in painting anonymity until the year 2000, what one finds quite annoying is when someone sees my work and assumes that I am influenced by somebody’s work that they know from the 1960’s, when in fact those things weren’t even painted before mine!