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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Martin Rico scene of Venice

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    A Venetian canal with gondolas, Santa Maria Della Salute beyond, Martín Rico y Ortega; oil on canvas, roughly 17 x 28 in. (43 x 70 cm). Link is to a previous auction on Christie’s (large image here). I don’t know the currnet location of the original. One of many beautiful images of Venice by 19th…

  • Alex Venezia

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    Alex Venezia is a contemporaty American painter based in North Carolina. His work is largely figurative, often featuring portrayals of young women in apparent states of worry or emotional distress. What particularly strikes me about venezia’s work is his use of value. His subtle and carefully balanced value relationships remind me of 19th century painters…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts landscape

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    Bridge in the garden of Versailles, Jan Bogaerts, oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 24 inches (40 x 60 cm). Link is to previous sale page on Simonis & Buunk Fine Art Dealers. (Click on the image on their page for a larger view.) A beautifully idyllic landscape by Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts. Bogaerts, who…

  • Rosie Sanders

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    Rosie Sanders is a contemporary botanical artists whose large scale watercolor paintings of floral and other plant subjects are also in the realm of gallery art. Though she uses the kind of painstakingly detailed watercolor technique that is not uncommon among botanical artists, I think the scale of her paintings is unusual. You can get…

  • Eugen Jettel

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    Eugen Jettel was an Austrian landscape painter active in the late 19th century. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and lived in Paris for several years, where he was part of a circle of Austrian and German artists living and working in Paris at the time. His landscapes are often of…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2023!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 17 years, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecer’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case marking the arrival of 1923. American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker first represented the new year as a…