painters
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Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)
Self-Portrait, 1892
Posting all my favourites! Or should that be fauvorites? (a little art history humour for you there, try the veal!)
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herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:
Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941), Portrait of Dr. Piraz, c. 1907. Oil and wax on canvas, 62 x 51 cm.
I <3 Delaunay! So much, big influence when I used to paint.
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Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait in Tuxedo, 1927
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Dott: portrait of her husband, Peter McOmish Dott, art dealer and critic.
Full credit:
Peter McOmish Dott (1856–1934), Art Dealer and Critic by Jean Morton Dott.
Always have a thing for Scots and celtic men…and a portrait is only meaningful if there is a connection between sitter and artist, be they photographs or paintings. The connection comes out in the pose, the response. Too much ‘fashion’ style portraiture with empty meaning, no connection, no soul, no truth out there.
Here you can feel the connection between wife and husband, even the uncomfortable nature of shift of power or position temporarily, even the quizzical nature of his look, like ‘why are we doing this?’ – very much a dynamic of long term partners. It’s very telling…
Also I think he’s taken his glasses off, hence the squinting (might not be quizzical then?). Very vain 😉
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Artist Augustus John onboard a ship, Library of Congress.
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Tintoretto , Self-Portrait
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Holbein: portrait of Sir Thomas Strange (detail), and
portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
I have such an artistic hard-on for Holbein it’s not true. Always and inspiration. Shame the original of this portrait did not survive – but a surprisingly amount of sketches for those lost paintings did…
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Veronese – Portrait of a Man in Furs 1550 – 1560
Loved this at the National Gallery (only on til the 15th so get down there now!).
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Text book vandalism, Van Gogh is my Homeboy!
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William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), American painter