Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt pen drawing along the Amstel River
A bend in the River Amstel near Kostverloren House, Rembrandt van Rijn; pen and brown ink with brown and grey washes, heightened with white bodycolour on oatmeal paper; roughly 5 x 10″ (14 x 25 cm). Original is in the collection of the Chatsworth Estate. It would be easy to glance at a drawing like…
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Zinaida Serebriakova (revisited)
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) was a Ukrainian painter who was active in the early 20th century. Like most Ukrainian painters of the time, she is often referred to as a Russian painter because Ukraine was under the Russian Empire at that point. I first featured her on Lines and Colors in 2014. Though she…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugen Jettel landscape
River Landscape with a Resting Herd (Flusslandschaft mit ruhender Herde), Euren Jettel; oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 38 inches (64 x 97 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. The image was sourced from an auction house, so I don’t know the location of the original. A beautiful landscape by late 19th…
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Arkhip Kuindzhi (revisited)
Arkhip Kuindzhi is a Ukrainian painter I first featured on Lines and Colors in 2012. Kuindzhi was born in Mariupol in the 1840’s (the exact date is not known), at a time when that part of Ukraine was subjugated by the Russian Empire. He was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He…
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Oleg Denisenko (revisited)
Oleg Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor who I first featured in 2007, and again in 2012. His wonderfully eccentric subjects center on figures with elaborate costumes, intricately detailed an accompanied by a range of curious objects. He plays with proportion and scale and varying degrees of exaggeration. Denisenko appears to vary…
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Ivan Pokhitonov (revisited)
Ivan Pokhitonov is a Ukrainian painter I featured on Lines and Colors in 2019. Many of his strikingly beautiful landscapes and occasional portraits are quite a bit smaller than you might assume from the images. For more information, images and links to sources of images, see my previous post on Ivan Pokhitonov.