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2009-05-30T18:41:00.007Z

PAUL OUTERBRIDGE 1896 - 1958

2009-04-19T21:47:00.006Z

JACQUES MAJORELLE 1886 - 1962.
The last - and best - Orientalist.

2008-05-03T11:57:00.002Z

JACQUES BELIN.

Morocco in the 1950's.
I am unable to find any information on Jacques Belin. Other than that he was "photographe semi-officiel de la résidence générale."

These pictures all come from:
MAROC UN CERTAIN REGARD.
By Frederic Mitterand and Abdellah Taia.
Actes Sud/Malika Editions.
ISBN 9954-0-3748-9

2007-09-07T17:59:00.000Z

JEAN GILLETTA 1856-1933

Photographer of the Pays Niçois at the end of the 19th.C.
These pictures come from:
JEAN GILLETTA. PHOTOGRAPHE DE LA RIVIERA.
Jean-Paul Potron.
Gilletta. Nice Matin.
ISBN. 2 915606 40 4

2007-06-08T20:02:00.000Z

FRED WILLIAMS. 1927-1982.
The Art of Fred Williams: James Mollison.
ISBN. 0195549112.
Fat man in a landscape.

2007-05-07T17:39:00.000Z

BRUNO SCHULTZ 1892 - 1941.
Bruno Schultz was murdered by the SS. Almost all of his work was destroyed.
The fragments that remain are published in:
THE DRAWINGS OF BRUNO SCHULTZ. Edited and introduced by Jerzy Ficowski.
North western University Press. ISBN: 0-8101-0965-4.

2007-05-03T19:06:00.000Z

JACQUES CATHALAA: Taurine Photographer.

These all come from:
TOROVALIE: Daniel Herrero, Jacques Cathalaa, Miguel Darriemerlou.
Editions Cairn
ISBN: 2-912233-16-X

2006-11-03T19:01:00.000Z

FORTUNATO DEPERO 1892-1960
Depero FUTURISTA!
Go to:
http://www.depero.it/
(Official website.)
One of these was 'borrowed' for the nite-club scene in de Palma's 'BLACK DAHLIA'
Which one....?
(All from:
DEPERO FUTURISTA: Gabriela Belli: SKIRA.
ISBN: 88-818-584-9)

2006-11-03T18:45:00.000Z

RUSSIAN AND SOVIET THEATRE DESIGN.

These pictures all come from:
RUSSIAN AND SOVIET THEATRE (TRADITION AND THE AVANT-GARDE.)
by KONSTANTIN RUDNITSKY.
Thames and Hudson (English language edition.)
ISBN: 0-500-28195-5
It is hard to choose favourites from this remarkable document.

2006-09-13T15:27:00.000Z

WEI DONG.
WEI DONG was born during the Cultural Revolution. He is self-taught.
You can see more of his work at:
Chinese contemporary.com
plumblossoms.com

2006-08-23T18:29:00.000Z

LOUIS PONS
These images come from:
LOUIS PONS: Editions d'Art. Somogy. PARIS.
Copyright Louis Pons. 1999.

Photograph of Louis Pons by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

My thanks to Jack Vidal and Anne Tourlonais for introducing me to the work - and the man.
LOUIS PONS appears in AGNES VARDA's film "THE GLEANERS AND I." (LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE.)

2006-07-24T18:25:00.000Z

HERCULES SEGERS. 1589-1638.
Mountain Valley with fields. (Etching and drypoint.)
Segers may have been a teacher to Rembrandt. Rembrandt certainly owned several of Segers' prints.
His strange, visionary landscapes are unique in art history.

2006-07-18T17:21:00.000Z

JUAN SANCHEZ COTAN. 1560-1627.
Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and a Cucumber. c. 1600.
This is said to be one of the earliest still lifes painted in Europe.

2006-07-18T17:16:00.000Z

FRANCISCO de GOYA. 1746-1828.
A Turkey and a Frying Pan. c. 1808-12.

2006-07-13T18:34:00.000Z

JEAN BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN 1699-1779
A Partridge and a Pear.

ALEXANDRE FRANCOIS DESPORTES 1661-1743.
Birds in Exotic Landscapes.

2006-07-05T20:00:00.000Z

JEAN FOUQUET: Self portrait.
Self portraits by artists of this period are rare.

2006-07-05T19:41:00.000Z

JEAN FOUQUET. 1420-1480.
This great master is known to us by name thanks to Francois Robertet, secretary to the Duke of Bourbon, who mentions him in the 'Jewish Antiquities' as "a native of Tours: a good painter and illuminator to Louis XI,".

On the fates of famous men.
(The trial of the Duke of Vendome)

2006-07-05T19:36:00.000Z

Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

2006-07-05T19:31:00.000Z

Martyrdom of St. James
From: HEURES D'ETIENNE CHEVALIER>

2006-07-05T19:29:00.000Z

Portrait of a fool.

2006-05-29T18:23:00.000Z

3 more by the mighty JOAQUIM MIR.
These paintings can be seen in the excellent gallery at the Abbey of Montserrat in Catalonia.
From:
LAS COLECCIONAS DE LA PINTURA DE LA ABADIA DE MONTSERRAT.
Ed. Josep C. Laplana.
ISBN. 84-8415-143-3

2006-05-26T22:36:00.000Z

JUDEX, a film by GEORGES FRANJU (1962)
2 costume masks created by CHRISTINE COURCELLES.

CHANNING POLLOCK, who played Judex, is seen here performing the classic illusion that he invented.
http://cinema.telerama.fr/edito/robes/robes.htm

2006-05-18T18:01:00.001Z

VALENTIN SEROV. 1865-1911

Odysseus and Naussicaa.

2006-05-17T16:21:00.000Z

JOAQUIM MIR (2)
All images are from:
JOAQUIM MIR. Enric Jardi. Edicions Polygrafia, S.A.
ISBN: 84-343-0566-6

2006-05-04T18:24:00.000Z

ACHILLE MAUZAN. 1883-1952.
"Un affichiste francais inconnu en France."
Vendre, fevrier 1933.

I have a scruffy little book on MAUZAN which I thought I had lost.
Unfortunately there is very little in colour.
(AFFICHES MAUZAN: Henri Veyrier. Musee de la publicite.
ISBN: 2-85199-300-3.)

2006-05-02T18:40:00.000Z

JOAQUIM MIR, 1873-1940.
One from the master colourist, Catalan painter JOAQUIM MIR.
My aplologies to the marvellous MIR. This is a postcard from the Museu d'art Modern, Barcelona. It can only hint at the soulful colours of a very great painter.
I will post more by MIR soon.

2006-05-02T18:01:00.000Z

DAVID ROBERTS. (1796-1864)
THE CHAPTERHOUSE, BURGOS CATHEDRAL. (1836)
Two interesting versions of the same piece by a master draughtsman of the 19th. Century.
Roberts also designed sets for the London theatres. Sadly almost none of this work survives.
He was a remarkable draughtsman but no great colourist. His Egyptian prints remain popular today and may have set the rigid rule that all imagery on Ancient Egypt should be 'golden'.

2006-04-27T18:48:00.000Z

Another gem from PUNCH magazine.

2006-04-27T18:29:00.000Z

Now this is what I would call CLASS.
I particularly love the advertising art of the 1930's.
I know nothing of the designer - (who you will see has signed at lower right as SHRIMPTON.)

This comes from:
CLASSIC MOTORING FROM PUNCH.
Editor: Paula Granados.
ISBN: 0-7495-0399-8

2006-04-21T17:04:00.000Z

RICHARD SAMUEL ROBERTS (1880-1936)

Portrait photographer of South Carolina in the 1920's.

2006-04-21T16:44:00.000Z

All Photographs come from :
A TRUE LIKENESS.
THE BLACK SOUTH OF RICHARD SAMUEL ROBERTS: 1920-36.
Edited by THOMAS L. JOHNSON & PHILLIP C. DUNN
ISBN:0-912697-50-4

2006-04-21T15:20:00.000Z

FRANK BELLAMY (1917-1976)
These are pages from "The Happy Warrior" - a comic strip biography of Winston Churchill.
They were originally published in the EAGLE comic in 1958.
Bellamy was the David Lean of English comics.

2006-04-11T15:38:00.000Z

2 More by VALLATTON.

All images come from :
FELIX VALLATON: Ed. Sacha M.Newman.
Yale University Gallery. Abbeville Press.
ISBN: 1-55859-3128

2006-04-11T15:20:00.000Z

FELIX VALLATON (1865-1926) Painter of the unspoken word.

The age of beards:
From left to right: ROUSSELL, VUILLARD, COOLUS, VALLATON (1896)

2006-04-07T16:51:00.000Z

EDWARD ARTHUR WALTON (1860-1922)

Also from the GLASGOW BOYS:
"The Hind's Daughter."
WALTON'S masterpiece.

2006-04-07T15:54:00.000Z

ARTHUR MELVILE 1855 - 1905

Classic English watercolour technique begins with JOHN SELL COTMAN and TOM GIRTIN in the late 18th. and early 19th. Century.
MELVILLE reached the apex about a hundred years later.
He travelled widely in southern Europe and the Middle East. Many of his paintings are on a large scale.
Like BRENET he had a 'photographic' eye.

Most of these images come from:
THE GLASGOW BOYS by ROGER BILLCLIFFE
ISBN: 0-7195-4118-2
(The book that revived interest in a forgotten group of Scots artists who were Melville's followers.)

2006-04-05T18:19:00.000Z

LYONEL FEININGER / The City at the Edge of the World

Lyonel Feininger: photo by Andreas Feininger.

Feininger's city of toys.

All pictures come from:
THE CITY AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
(Published by Frederic A. Praeger: 1965)
Copyright: Rutten and Loening Verlag. 1965.

2006-03-21T19:33:00.002Z

ALBERT BRENET, artiste reporter.

All images are in copyright:
1991, Edilarge SA-Editions Ouest-France, Rennes.
1991, Association Des Amis Du Musee de la Marine, Paris.
and come from:
ALBERT BRENET, PEINTRE REPORTER. (ISBN: 2-7373-0884-4)

2006-03-21T19:21:00.000Z