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Art & Mood:Peder Severin Krøyer

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Marie Krøyer,1890





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Art & Mood

Art & Mood

J. S. Sargent:Gardens&Fountains (3)

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Spanish Fountain,1912



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Spanish Fountain,1903



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In a Medici Villa,1907



Villa Torlonia Fountain,1907




The Great Fountain of Bologna,1906



Bologna Fountain,1906




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Pool in the Garden of La Granja,1912



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vase Fountain, Pocantico,1917



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Warren Brandt (American, 1918-2002) -1

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White Table, Black Chair,1977,Lois Borgenicht and Johannes Reim Collection. New York. U.S.A.


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Empire Chair-1978-Grace Brandt Collection. New York. U.S.A.




Tulips, Lilacs, and Dogwood,1979



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Self-Portrait in Morelos,1980



Self-Portrait in Studio,1982;
The Artist in His Studio,1979



Self-Portrait, Water Mill Studio,1986, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rose Collection. New York.



*The New York Times-Warren Brandt (American, 1918-2002)

**Brandt exemplifies a generation that maintained close ties to the founding members of the New York School while seeking a newly figurative idiom, one based as much on the “decorative” color aesthetic of Henri Matisse as on the expressionistic brushwork of Willem de Kooning.

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Warren Brandt -2

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Poinsettias with Fan,1986-(*all-pastels)



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Spring Flowers and Red Robes,1986




Japanese Robes and Imari Vase,1986



Le Rouge et Le Noir,1986



Chinese Still Life,1985



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Art of China-Wang Weidong (b.1963)

Wang Weidong-2

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Still Life with Books and Seal


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Still Life with Persimmons



Still Life



Still Life with Shell and Open Box



Still Life with Brushes and Ink



Still Life



Still Life



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Art Links:Gary Cody (b.1945-Canadian)-1

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Silver Plate;Pears And Grapes



Blue Wallpaper,2003-Oil on canvas on board




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Still Life With Portrait,2003-Oil on canvas on board




Blue And White Plate; Apples And Mail




Eight Glass Jars;Venice



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Japanese Print And Clock,2005



Green Vase And Pink Roses,2006;Pink Square, Yellow Ribbons,2006


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Deco Hood Ornaments I;Deco Streamliner-2005




Airmail II;Blue Vase And Hood Ornament,2004-5



Calendar With Yellow Ribbon;Checkerboard Mustang-2005



Water Pistols At The World's Fair,2005



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Art & Mood :J.S.Sargent

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Aristide Maillol (10)

Aristide Maillol (11)

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Roses et tournesols,1943


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Les grenades,1893



Nature morte aux poivrons,1940




Nature morte à la grenade,1943



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Aristide Maillol (12)

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Portrait de Madame Maillol,1894


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La soeur de l'artiste,1888




Portrait de tante Lucie,1892



Portrait d'une catalane,1885



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Portrait de Mademoiselle Jeanne Faraill,1888-89



Portrait de Lucien,1896





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Edouard Vuillard & Aristide Maillol (17)

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Maillol at work on Cezanne Memorial, c.1925



+2Aristide Maillol-Monument à Paul Cézanne,1912-25


*Aristide Maillol, Pour le Monument à Paul Cézanne, 1912-1925



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* Christie's Aristide Maillol-Monument à Paul Cézanne




In 1912 Maillol received a commission from Frantz Jourdain, the founder of the Salon d'Automne, and a group of friends of Paul Cézanne, for a monument to the master of Aix-en-Provence, who had died six years earlier. The committee was unable to solicit sufficient funds for the project, however, or agree on the details, and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 put an end to their plans. Maillol, who regarded Cézanne as "the genius of modern painting" (quoted in J. Rewald, op. cit., p. 19), kept the idea alive, and returned to it following the end of the war in 1918.
Maillol had already made several preparatory studies, in which he tried out and rejected several reclining poses, including those seen in many of the smaller bronzes that have since been cast, in which one leg is raised significantly higher than the other. By 1920 the sculptor had arrived at the definitive state for his Monument à Paul Cézanne: the legs of the recumbent girl are only slightly bent, and she presents in her raised hand an offering of olive branches (not included in this lead version). Maillol intended her to be seen as a bather, one of Cézanne's important subjects; she reclines on a flowing drapery, as if she were resting in the current of a river, a symbol of passing time. Her forms are classical, having been rendered in simple, unadorned volumes, in keeping with Cézanne's conception of form as Maillol understood it. The antique stylization of the girl's hair carried connotations of the ancient Roman origins of Provençal culture. Maillol drew on the sense of serenity and repose that he had instilled in this work, as well as the motif of the olive branch, when he undertook his tribute to the French war dead in the Monument de Port-Vendres, 1921-1923.

The final version in stone was ready by 1925. Edouard Vuillard executed a large painting in 1931-1937 that shows Maillol at work on the Cézanne monument (Salomon and Cogeval, no. XI-120; fig. 1); he based this tribute to Maillol on a study that he made while the sculpture was in progress (no. XI-116; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). Maillol had hoped that the citizens of Aix would place the sculpture by the fountain in their town square, believing that the setting and surrounding space were crucial to the harmony of his design. His plans fell through, however, and the town rejected the monument. Gaston Doumergue, the President of France, intervened, and had the state acquire the sculpture for the city of Paris. In October 1929 the stone version of the Monument à Paul Cézanne was finally installed, between the double ramps that lead to the terrace of the Orangerie in the Jardins des Tuileries gardens. A cast in lead replaced the stone sculpture in 1943; the latter is presently in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. A bronze version from the present edition was installed in 1964 near the Carrousel in the Jardins des Tuileries, one of eighteen large sculptures that Dina Vierny donated to the French state.

(fig. 1) Edouard Vuillard, Aristide Maillol, 1931-1937. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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