Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: River Gnilitsa by Vladimir Orlovsky
River Gnilitsa, Vladimir Orlovsky; oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 61″ (95 x 155cm). Link is to 2012 Bonham’s auction (with zoomable image). I assume the present location is a private collection. There is a reasonably large downloadable image here on Art Market Monitor. Ukrainian painter Vladimir Orlovsky, who I featured recently as well as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts still life
Still life with a green strainer, Jan Bogaerts Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts has a marvelous touch for portraying the surface textures of his still life objects. At times his deftly handled light and the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto pen and wash drawing
Imaginary View of Padua, Bernardo Bellotto; pen, black ink and gray wash drawing; roughly 13 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18th century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto had a very effective pen and wash technique for rendering architectural subjects that is similar to…
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Vladimir Orlovsky (revisited)
Vladimir Orlovsky (alternately: Vladimir Orlovskii or Volodymyr Orlovsky) was a Ukrainian landscape painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first profiled in 2014. Like most of his Ukrainian contemporaries, who lived and worked at a time when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, he is often listed as a…
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Dimitri Danish (update)
Dimitri Danish is a Ukrainian artist I first wrote about in 2013. His compositions often feature large areas of relatively low chroma and/or low value punctuated with areas of bright, intense color. Most of his subjects are cityscapes, in particular many views of Venice, in addition to locations in Ukraine and other European countries as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer watercolor & gouache
Fresh Eggs, Winslow Homer; watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 9 x 8 inches (24 x 19 cm). Original is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable images on their site. In this simple, unassuming study of a commonplace chore, Homer shows us the ability of…