This work is a charming depiction of one of the artist's best-loved towns and an amalgamation of some of his most characteristic artistic elements. The flickering brushwork perfectly captures the fragility of that most magical and transient time of day: the threshold between day and night.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81.5 cm]
“There may be suggestions in him of similarities with Pissarro, and especially with Sisley [...] but while so many dishonest followers plagiarise Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro, and steal their effects, Francis Picabia, who already possesses a very individual technique, expresses, year after year, a temperament that is his own, and his alone… ” [Louis Vauxcelles]
«Decameron» by Giovanni Boccaccio #7 - Limited Edition 1 of 1, Natalia Ryabova
Monoprint on paper.
Illustration for “Decameron” Boccaccio.
Series was made during summer art residence in Tuscany dear Boccaccio’ house in summer 2016.
Intellectual basis of Natalia’ creativity is “the philosophy of unreal»
Works indulge in the production of romantic, melancholic and old world imagery, and makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature.
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) è stato un pittore Danese, noto per i suoi ritratti ed interni poetici e sommessi.
Vita
Vilhelm Hammershøi nacque a Copenhagen, in Danimarca. Figlio di un mercante benestante, Christian Hammershøi, comincia a studiare disegno all'età di otto anni con Niels Christian Kierkegaard e Holger Grønvold, oltre a dipingere con Vilhelm Kyhn.
Più grande, segue i corsi di Frederik Vermehren presso la Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Dal 1883-1885 studia con Peder Severin Krøyer debuttando alla "Mostra primaverile di Charlottenborg", nel 1885, con "Ritratto di una giovane ragazza" (che mostra sua sorella Anna).
Vilhelm Hammershøi | Ritratto di una giovane ragazza. La sorella dell'artista, Anna Hammershøi
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