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...Next month, the auction house will offer 12 works by French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), from the collection of the art historian Joseph Baillio (total estimate $2.4mn-$3.5mn)....
...The “prince of painters and painter of princes”, as he was called in his lifetime, is familiar but alien to modern taste — grandiloquent, arcane....
...These rooms were all lightly refurbished in the early 2000s with the help of designers Élisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti. Upstairs are the bedrooms, off corridors with red tomettes floors....
...Rococo fell sharply out of fashion, and the sisterhood associated with it — Rosalba, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Angelica Kauffman and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (who at 23 became the official painter for Marie...
...But Jarman’s main assault on the historical movie came later, with Caravaggio, his thrillingly transgressive 1986 portrait of the Renaissance painter....
...Catherine Anholt and Marie-Elisabeth Merlin from Aix-en-Provence....
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
...A less successful second room jumbles female portraits by artists of varying quality; standouts are 18th-century self-portraits by pioneers Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman, whose talent and...
...For 10 years, Gaetan Geoffray worked as a plasterer and painter, before learning metalwork at a company that made cranes. Arnaud Dupuy was a policeman....
...Among the best-respected dealers was Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun: husband to the celebrated portrait painter (and friend and favourite of Marie Antoinette) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, he sold his wares...
...His mother, Sigrid Elisabeth Lindforss, was an opera singer and abstract painter....
...Over the years her work has largely been attributed to her brother or to another painter, Jacob van Oost....
...Standout mini-masterpieces include British sculptor Schoony’s 3D printed graphite boy soldier, a vibrant ink and watercolour landscape by Birmingham-born painter Hurvin Anderson and nudes by cartoonist Weef...
...This also offered Elisabeth Frink’s “Head” (1967), sold by the fashion designer Mary Quant for a within-estimate £75,000 (£94,500 with fees)....
...Those few forging careers — Artemisia, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur — had family access, usually painter-fathers. (Manet was Morisot’s brother-in-law.)...
...Around the kneeling figures representing the altarpiece’s donors, merchant Jodocus Vijd (bald, wrinkled) and wife Elisabeth Borluut (middle-aged, white headdress, single gleaming pin), the MSK has gathered...
...Recitals are given in the attractive new Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal (pictured), where last summer’s musical treats included Schubert piano sonatas played by Elisabeth Leonskaja and songs sung by English tenor...
...Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art has “Two Nudes” (c1918, €50,000) by Elisabeth Chaplin, the bulk of whose work is owned by the Pitti Palace of Modern Art in Florence, so she is a rarity on the market; while...
...In its forthcoming Master Paintings evening sale on January 30, for instance, Sotheby’s New York presents “The Female Triumphant” and a focus on women painters that includes an early still life by the Milanese...
...One of the greatest portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age is also recording some of its most illustrious personalities....
...A flame-stitch needlework pocketbook, of remarkable beauty and condition, is embroidered with its date and the name of its maker: Elisabeth Fellows, 1776....
...Murray’s granddaughter and biographer, Elisabeth Murray, theorised that his reluctance was because the honour would “destroy the image of martyrdom which he had built up for himself”....
...For women the way up was naturally harder than for men, but Élisabeth Vigée had what it took....
...Frans Hals’ 1641 “Regents of the St Elisabeth Hospital of Haarlem” all dress in severe black, eschewing ostentation and projecting power at the same time....
...by Toyen, the foremost woman in the Czech surrealist movement, and the Armenian painter Leon Tutundjian’s “Still Life on a Balcony”....
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