Showing posts with label Subject: still life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Subject: still life. Show all posts

12 February 2022

Hubert Vos. Pink/Green Vase - Ceramic Vase on Table, 1923 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 76.2 x 61 cm (restored). Auctioned at Treadway Gallery Cincinnati, December 2005. Auctioned at Heritage Auctions Dallas, December 2013. Vos famous for his portrait of Chinese empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu Hsi) is also known for his still-life paintings of Chinese porcelains (presumed gifts from the empress). Underdrawing is visible.

More > Hubert Vos at Wikipedia.

4 October 2021

Louise Moillon. Still Life with a Basket of Plums (‘Panier de Quetsches’), 1629 (private collection).


Oil on wood: 40.5 x 52.5 cm. That moment when painters mastered that characteristic silvery hue on grapes and plums. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, June 2016.

More > Louise Moillon at Wikipedia.

2 September 2021

Natee Utarit. Ball of Greed and Illusion no. 1, 2008 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 180.5 x 160 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, April 2021. Natee Utarit (2018): “I’m always asking the people around me if we aren’t looking at things too optimistically. Is everything we see really as beautiful as it seems? These kinds of questions aren’t meant to destroy people’s faith; they are a reflection of our uncertainty and loss of belief in the reality right there in front of us. We can’t deny that always looking at life through rose-coloured glasses doesn’t teach us much of anything about how to live our lives in the world as it is today - a world where reality is so much more intense and so radically different from the past”.