#british art
Allen Jones (British, b. 1937), Thinking about Women, 1961-62. Oil on canvas, 152 x 151,8 cm
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Edward Steel Harper Jnr. (British, 1878-1951), Dockers by a Paddle Steamer, 1912. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in.
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Sir Cedric Morris, The Eggs, 1944, oil on canvas, 61.5 x 43.2 cm, Tate Collection. Source
The pastel shades of Sir Cedric Morris’ piece The Eggs have got me in the mood for this Easter weekend. It’s amazing how just a colour palette and one motif - the eggs - can evoke such a strong springtime mood, no lambs, chicks or bunny rabbits required.
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Concerto pour deux mandolines en sol majeur, RV. 532: II. Andante – Antonio Vivaldi
La joueuse de mandoline (The mandolin player)
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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Aria et 6 variations en sol mineur, P. 196 : II. Variation 1 – Johann Pachelbel
Détail de « Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott », par Thomas Gainsborough (1778).
Detail of “Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott”, by Thomas Gainsborough (1778).
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Détail de « Flora », par Evelyn de Morgan (1894).
Detail of “Flora”, by Evelyn de Morgan (1894).
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Tuesday Riddell — Pond Life (gold leaf, silver leaf, gold powder and paint on japanned board, 2021)
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Keng Wai Lee & Marco Araldi — Caracalla’s Gardens (acrylic and ink, gold leaf on canvas, 2021)
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![Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) — Tick Bird [oil on canvas, 1979]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9dbe49854314044f9d18629cc2fa4638/f403e533e4031ec4-ca/s1280x1920/1bcca08f937cbce1f7e6e7e9b866d09c055d93ba.jpg "Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) — Tick Bird [oil on canvas, 1979]")
Camilla
Walter Westley Russell
Lilies
Albert Joseph Moore
A Little Sea Maiden (private collection)
William Henry Margetson
Naked Portrait and a Green Chair by Lucian Freud, 1999.
Grandson of Sigmund, Lucian Freud (who lived most of his life as a recluse in London) also had a preoccupation with human sexuality–but they approached the subject in different ways.
Whereas the first Freud focused on theory, his descendant preferred empirical research.
One left a legacy of concepts such as penis envy, castration anxiety and the Oedipal complex.
The other left at least 14 children.
That’s a conservative estimate, by the way. Some people have speculated that the number is closer to 40.
His models remember Lucian as a charming but demanding painter who sometimes relied on seduction to attain his artistic vision. The art that resulted tended to be stark (or grotesque, some critics said) with no concessions to romance, but he found beauty in bodies in the absence of glamour.
Two of his daughters posed for their absent father in order to get to know him. Now what would Sigmund have thought about that?
Even before he died in 2011, Lucian’s work was selling for as much as $33 million at auction. Whether he had 14 heirs or 40, presumably his estate was generous enough for all.
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Herbert James Draper - The Lament for Icarus, 1898 (detail)
British, 1863-1920
Oil on canvas
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Grayson Perry.
The Reconciliation of Helen and Paris after His Defeat by Menelaus, Richard Westall, 1805
John Ruskin, Perspective Studies of Paper Crowns,1870.
Ruskin Collection.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Photographed by George Charles Beresford, 1911.
Colored by Lombardie Colorings.
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Andromeda
Artist: Sara Page (British)
Date: 1902
Location: Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Medium: Oil On Canvas
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