Woman – Zaidan Gallery

01 painting, The amorous game, Otto Aguiar’s Miami Beach, With Footnotes, #87

Otto Aguiar, Brazilian (1938 – 2006)
Miami Beach, c. 1993
Screenprint
40 x 30 inches
Private collection

The son of a highly respected Brazilian general, Otto de Souza Aguiar graduated with honors and was awarded a Master’s Degree in Graphic Art and Drawing from the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After teaching drawing and design to aspiring architects, Otto began the extensive travels through Europe that were his induction into the world of High Fashion and Interior Design. As one of Brazil’s top models, his engagements took him to Milan, Paris, and London. There, with his assignments in Harper’s Bazaar Italia and others of the world’s most prestigious publications, Aguiar developed an inspired aesthetic perception, which manifests itself boldly in his dramatic blending of color, texture and gilding.

Otto has combined his vast fashion and theatrical background with his diversified experience in the Visual Arts. Thus, his work has been characterized by the portrayal of elegance and grace. His inner tranquility manifests in his paintings as he recaptures the lush topical beauty of the Brazilian beaches and gardens of his youth. Aguiar was greatly inspired by the romance of the Baroque and Colonial period of Brazilian.

Renowned for his masterful integration of trompe l’oeil and unique figurative style, Aguiar’s work has been an extraordinary enhancement to residential, public and corporate settings on several continents, for almost 30 years. More on Otto Aguiar

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edgardo Saporetti’s Italian Mother with two children, with Footnotes. #100

Edgardo Saporetti, 1865 – 1909
Italian Mother with two children
Oil on canvas.
74 x 62 cm.
Private collection

The young woman leans against a house wall with a view of the viewer, a small child on her breast, the older daughter looking at the child.

Edgardo Saporetti (Bagnacavallo, 1865 – Bellaria, 1909) was an Italian painter of eclectic subjects, including portraits, landscapes, and genre subjects.

He was the son of Pietro Saporetti, painter and docent of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna, and initially studied there. At the age of 15 years, he traveled to Rome to work under Cesare Mariani, director of the Accademia di San Luca, then moved to Naples where he worked in the studio of Domenico Morelli. He was commissioned to complete portraits of the King Umberto I, his wife, and son Victor Emmanuel III.

His life and career is described as restless and stormy, and financial and other complications, forced him to exile himself to London. He was to return to Florence in 1903, where he obtained an appointment as adjunct professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. Among his works there was a series of illustrations of the Divine Comedy for the publisher and photographer Vittorio Alinari. He also completed a Via Crucis in Florence. More on Edgardo Saporetti

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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Henry Margetson’s Don’t Tell!, with Footnotes. #171

William Henry Margetson, RI, ROI (BRITISH, 1861-1940)
Don’t Tell! c. 1916
Oil on canvas
68.6 x 50.8cm (27 x 20in)
Private collection

William Henry Margetson RI (December 1861 – 2 January 1940) was an English painter and illustrator, mainly known for his aesthetic portraits of women.Margetson was born at Camberwell in Surrey. He studied at Dulwich College, and later at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1885 he first exhibited at the Royal Academy, and later also at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Grosvenor Gallery.

Margetson painted in oils and watercolours. He made his name with portraits of beautiful women,. He also created religious and allegorical artwork. Later he would use a looser brushstyle inspired by the post-impressionists and the pre-raphaelites.

He lived and worked first in London and later in Blewbury and Wallingford. He died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in 1940, at the age of 78. More on William Henry Margetson

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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Richard Bergh’s Lady with a fan, with Footnotes. #169

Richard Bergh, (1858-1919)
Lady with a fan, c. 1883.
Pastel
64 x 48 cm.
Private collection

Sven Richard Bergh (1858-1919) was a Swedish painter, art critic and museum manager. Despite many years in France, he remained unattracted to Impressionism, preferring instead the Naturalism of painters such as Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also rejected the idea of creating landscapes en plein aire.

Both of his parents were artists and, presumably, his first teachers. He began his formal studies from 1878 to 1881, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. His first works were scenes from Swedish history, painted in the Academic style. In 1881, he went to Paris. His first exhibition at the Salon came in 1883 and he completed his studies in 1884.

The following year he became members of the Nordic art colony at Grez-sur-Loing. That same year, he joined with the Swedish artists who became known as the opponents (Opponenterna); a group that was protesting what they felt were the outmoded teaching methods at the Academy. Shortly after, they created the Artists’ Association (Konstnärsförbundet).

In 1893, Bergh and his family moved to Varberg,. . He found himself more attracted to Romantic Nationalism; a predilection that was strengthened by a stay in Italy from 1897 to 1898, where the art he observed impressed him as representing exactly the opposite.

Richard Berghs väg, a street in Södra Ängby, Stockholm, was named after him. More on Richard Bergh

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12 Photographs, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ady Fidelin, the first black model and muse, by Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller, with Footnotes. #171

MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Ady Fidelin, c. 1936
Silver print
23 x 17.5 cm.
Private collection

Ady Fidelin was born in 1915 in Pointe-à-Pitre into one of Guadeloupe’s oldest Creole families, immigrating to France in the wake of the catastrophic 1928 cyclone that devastated the Caribbean, killing thousands. The death of her mother during this traumatic event and the passing of her father a few years later precipitated her migration to Paris to join family members who had made the passage before her. She arrived in France in one of the successive waves of émigres from the island, lured by the hope of a better life in the storm’s aftermath…

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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Thomas Saliot’s Lips and tongues, Part 46 – With Footnotes

Thomas Saliot, France
Lips and tongues
Oil on Canvas
37.4 H x 57.1 W x 0.4 in
Private collection

Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas.

Thomas Saliot was born in Paris, France, in 1968. He studied Graphic Design at the Met de Penninghen (Esag) for 3 years and opened his own gallery in le Marais in the historic district of Paris from 1990 to 2000. For the past 20 years he has been living the life, painting and travelling between Marrakech, Morocco and his home city of Paris, France. More on Thomas Saliot

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01 painting, The amorous game, John Lewis Brown’s The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, With Footnotes, #86

John Lewis Brown (1829–1890)
The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, c. 1876
Oil on panel
59 x 49 CM
Private collection

The word grisette has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. By the 1835 she was described as:

a young working woman who is coquettish and flirtatious.

In practice, “young working woman” referred primarily to those employed in the garment and millinery trades as seamstresses or shop assistants, the few occupations open to them in 19th century urban France, apart from domestic service. The sexual connotations which had long accompanied the word are made explicit in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1976) which lists one of its meanings as a young woman who combines part-time prostitution with another occupation. More on a grisette
John Lewis Brown (1829–1890) was a French battle, animal, and genre painter. He was born in Bordeaux of a Scottish family of Stuart partisans. He studied in the École des Beaux-Arts with Camille Roqueplan and Jean-Hillaire Belloc.[1] He is known for his pictures of hunting and military scenes, and his studies of horses and dogs. He painted a number of admirable pictures from the American Revolutionary War, the Seven Years’ War, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. His presentation is clever and humorous, his work characterized by refinement and charm. The Luxembourg possesses his “Before the Start,” the Gallery of Dublin, “The Mountebank.” He was also an excellent etcher and aquarellist. More on John Lewis Brown

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01 painting, The amorous game, Gurcharan Singh’s Saturday Night, With Footnotes, #85

Gurcharan Singh
Saturday Night, c. 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 48 in (152.3 x 122 cm)
Private collection

Gurcharan Singh is an Indian painter, known for his figurative paintings.[1] He was born in 1949 at Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab and studied at Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chandigarh.[2] He has had several and group exhibitions in India and abroad and his works were exhibited at the International Biennale in Tokyo in 1984, at the Contemporary Art Show in Seoul in 1986 and the Festival of Contemporary Art in London in 1988.[2] The Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and India House, Paris have his on display at their premises.[3] His signature paintings are based on the people from financially compromised classes; The Red Light in Black and White and Les Miserables are two of his notable works. More on Gurcharan Singh

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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s Roman beauty, with Footnotes. #168

Philip Hermogenes Calderon, RA, (BRITISH, 1833-1898)
A Roman beauty, c.1887
Oil on canvas
46 x 39.5cm (18 1/8 x 15 9/16in)
Private collection

Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.

Calderon planned to study engineering, but he became so interested in drawing technical figures and diagrams that he changed his mind and devoted his time to art. In 1850, he trained at Leigh’s art school, London, then went to Paris in 1851. His first successful painting was in 1852, which was followed by a much more popular one in 1856. He was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, and some of his work showed the detail, deep colors, and realistic forms that characterize the style.

His later paintings adopt a more classical style, comparable to Edward Poynter. Calderon became Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1887, and from then on worked to support the teaching of anatomy based on nude models at the Royal Academy Schools. His 1891 painting St Elizabeth of Hungary’s great act of renunciation was secured by the Chantrey bequest for the national collection, and is now located in Tate Britain. More on Philip Hermogenes Calderon

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01 photograph, The amorous game, Sergii Mykhalkiv’s Boudery Fun # 11, With Footnotes, #82

Sergii Mykhalkiv
Boudery Fun # 11
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 27.2 W x 18.1 H x 0 D in
Private collection

Sergiy Mykhalkiv was born in 1975 in Lviv. He was teaching the art of photography in several photo schools. In 2017 he opened his own photo studio “RedLight”. Mykhalkiv was a two-time winner of the annual contest of the “Playboy” magazine, and winner of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine Contest “Photo Portrait” in 2009, and winner in “Cannon” online competition in 2012.

Since 1998 Sergiy Mykhalkiv takes photos of his muses – beautiful naked women, inspired by the relaxed charm and natural beauty of the female body, which so admired by artists of different eras. He says that the genre of his work is not erotic. Mykhalkiv likes the definition intimate portrait. By taking off clothing – a woman removes her heavy social status and becomes such as it was created by nature. And at this moment, using his own boudoir situation created in the studio, Mykhalkiv creates his photo compositions – the stories from the boudoir. More on Sergii Mykhalkiv

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04 Photographs, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Bower Hesser’s JEAN HARLOW ALMOST NUDE, with Footnotes. #165

EDWIN BOWER HESSER
JEAN HARLOW ALMOST NUDE, c. 1929
Photograph
12 by 9 inch
Private collection

Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 — June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of “bad girl” characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the “Blonde Bombshell” and the “Platinum Blonde”, Harlow was popular for her “Laughing Vamp” screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars, whose image in the public eye has endured. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow №22 on its greatest female screen legends of classical Hollywood cinema list…

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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84

K S KULKARNI
Embrace, Circa 1960s
Oil on canvas board
29.25 x 21.25 in (74 x 54 cm)
Private collection

K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until 1968. In 1955, he was awarded the first of his three national awards and in 1958 he traveled through Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil and came into contact with the Mayan and Inca civilizations which were to become an important influence in his work. In 1962, Kulkarni was elected to the General Council of the Lalit Kala Academy. The artist passed away in 1994. More on K S Kulkarni

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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pegah Samaie’s Defiance, with Footnotes. #161

Pegah Samaie
Defiance, c. 2020
Oil on aluminum
24 × 30 in, 61 × 76.2 cm
Private collection

Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed her perception of the role of women in society; they motivated her and influenced her way of talking about women. Art is her voice to talk about her feelings and experiences.

Pegah studied drawing and painting under the guidance of master Iranian artists. She received her BFA with honors from the prestigious Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach, CA, where she is now also completing her Master of Fine Art degree. More on Pegah Samaie

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01 photograph, The amorous game, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, With Footnotes, #81

Helmut Newton, Australian/German, 1920–2004
Rich Girl, From Private Property Suite II, c. 1982
Gelatin silver print
10.8 x 10.8 in. (27.43 x 27.43 cm.)
Private collection

Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in on the shoes themselves in the present work from Private Property Suite II. Beginning an exploration of what high heels represent in society, he investigates the way class presents itself through footwear. Newton later went on to photograph x-rays of feet in high heels and even donning a pair in his famed self-portrait. More on this photograph
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer, Elsle Simon, known as Yva. Her surreal, multiple exposure photographs that took in fashion, theater and the nude were to inspire Newton throughout his career.

On November 9, 1938, Newton, secured passage to China, where he stopped in Singapore until 1940 before leaving to Australia and finding work as a truck driver in the Australian Army.

In 1948, he married actress June Browne, herself a photographer under the name of Alice Springs, a name she chose from a map of Australia. High-profile contracts with Australian Vogue in the 1950’s; British Vogue in 1957-1958; French Vogue in 1961 provided Newton with the exposure that would allow him to stamp his style on fashion photography over the next 40 years.

Known as the ‘King of Kink’, Newton’s erotically charged imagery was provocative as it was masterful in its compositional and narrative direction. Creating highly charged images layered with voyeuristic, sado-masochist undertexts, Newton was drawn to empowered woman presenting a potent image of female sexuality in the 60’s and 70’s.

Newton died, aged 83, in 2004 following a major car accident in Los Angeles. More on Helmut Newton

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ender’s Danger inflammable, with Footnotes. #160

Ender
Danger inflammable, c. 2020
Aerosol paint, collage, Stencil
81 x 60 x 1 cm
Private collection

Mixed media: torn posters and a stencil made with a spray can mounted on canvas. During his interventions on the walls, Ender collects posters. Most often, he uses the reverse side of these posters, which thus keep the imprint of the previous poster. These are broken down into more or less large pieces, like an urban puzzle, from which sometimes the trace of a word or an indication emerges.

Ender was born in 1973, he lives and works in Paris. Professional actor for more than 25 years, inquiring about art in general terms, he started by pasting up his stencils on Parisian walls in 2008.

He acts as a film director when pasting up on the walls of Paris, Rome, Marseilles, Strasbourg, Venice or Florence, making sure the stencil and the wall onto which it is pasted can have a proper dialogue and above all, that the viewers get into the conversation.

At the beginning, the serie Les Mariolles, depicting playful and insolent kids pulling out their tongs to passers-by, will be followed by the serie showing gargoyles, and mythological characters as well as angels. The common ground to all these favored themes lies in the will to borrow classical themes and integrate them into modern times, angels landing on our walls naturally wear hoodies.

Ender’s studio work is now shown in different galleries in Paris, Nice, Marseille and Strasbourg. He participated twice in the festival international d’art contemporain des Alpilles.

Mentionned in a dozen books dealing with urban art, he’s one of the few french artist in the « Planet Banksy book edited in the United States in 2014. More on Ender

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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni di Paolo’s Paradise – with footnotes #191

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) Italian
Paradise, c. 1445
Tempera and gold on canvas, transferred from wood
18 7/16 × 16 1/16 in. (46.8 × 40.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paradise is envisioned as a lush meadow tapestried with over-sized flowers and a line of what appears to be apple trees. Rabbits frolic about while the blessed greet each other or are welcomed by angels. The young males are dressed in the latest fashion, with red or bi-colored stockings, extravagant tunics and turbans, and the young women are no less fashionable in their long dresses with scalloped edges and heavy headdresses. There would seem to be no room for the poor in this Paradise, which is dominated by members of the Dominican order. Among the identifiable figures are Saint Giles at the upper left, dressed in white, with a deer behind him; Beato Ambrogio Sansedoni, a patron of Siena, at the middle left, dressed in the black and white Dominican habit, with a white dove near his head; Saint Augustine with his mother, Saint Monica, greeting each other at the center, she an old woman in black, he a bishop; Saints Dominic and Peter Martyr at the lower center, both in the Dominican habit; and Saint Anthony Abbot at the bottom right with two Dominican nuns. In the upper right, where the picture field has been cropped, an angel takes a youth by the hand and guides him into the golden light of Heaven. The inspiration for this scene is a painting that the Florentine Fra Angelico painted in 1431. More on this painting

Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (c. 1403–1482) was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena. He may have apprenticed with Taddeo di Bartolo, becoming a prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante’s texts.

He was one of the most important painters of the 15th century Sienese School. His early works show the influence of earlier Sienese masters, but his later style was more individual, characterized by cold, harsh colours and elongated forms. His style also took on the influence of International Gothic artists such as Gentile da Fabriano. Many of his works have an unusual dreamlike atmosphere, such as the surrealistic Miracle of St. Nicholas of Tolentino painted about 1455 and now housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, while his last works, particularly Last Judgment, Heaven, and Hell from about 1465 and Assumption painted in 1475, both at Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena), are grotesque treatments of their lofty subjects. Giovanni’s reputation declined after his death but was revived in the 20th century. More on Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia

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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of France, with Footnotes. #159

Unknown artist
The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin
Oil and copper
height: 35 cm (13.7 in); width: 41.5 cm (16.3 in) (1.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Depicted: Hortense Mancini, Olympia Mancini, Marie Mancini

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with Footnotes. #158

Christine Spengler
Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, c. 1887
Photomontage
100cm x 90cm
Private collection

Marguerite Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season’s flooding. The disaster killed her mother as a result. After high school in Saigon, Ms. Duras left Indochina to study law in Paris. As a young woman, she worked as a secretary in France’s Ministry of Colonies from 1935 to 1941, before becoming a writer. She wrote 34 novels from 1943 to 1993, and became an enduring part of Paris’s intellectual elite. In addition to her writing, she also directed about 16 films. For the film India Song (1975), she won France’s Cinema Academy Grand Prix. She claimed to have rescued French president François Mitterand during World War II, when he was a resistance fighter and remained a friend and unconditional campaigner. Her most noted novel is “L’Amant”, the story of a girl, from a poor French family in Indochina, who becomes the mistress of a wealthy Indochinese notable’s son. More on Marguerite Duras

Christine Spengler (born 1945) is a French war photographer. Since 1970, she has photographed and reported on conflicts, primarily from the point of view of the victims of war.

She worked freelance as a photographer for Sipa-Press, Corbis-Sygma, and AP, while she documented wars in Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Western Sahara, Kurdistan, Nicaragua, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among others. Her work has appeared in news publications worldwide, including Paris-Match, Time, Newsweek, El País, The New York Times, and Le Monde. She photographed the Christian Dior winter 2018/2019 ready-to-wear Collection. More on Christine Spengler

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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with Footnotes. #157

Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki, 1843 – 1902, attributed
THE GIRL OR THE VASE
Oil on canvas.
28 x 42 cm.
Private collection

A sketch for a larger painting, also known as “The Presentation of a Slave” (Below). In an elegant interior, two traders, one in red, the other in blue, offer a young woman. You are about to open the white robe of the woman and present the naked beauty to a seated older, white-clad gentleman who is holding a high vase in his right arm. The presentation is viewed on the right by a man who is kneeling on a chair and another man. More on this painting

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843–23 August 1902) was a Polish painter based in Rome, best remembered for his monumental academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by many national galleries of Europe.

Many of his paintings depict scenes from antiquity, often the sunlit pastoral scenes or compositions presenting the lives of early Christians. He also painted biblical and historical scenes, landscapes, and portraits. His best-known works include monumental curtains for the Lviv Theatre of Opera and for the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków…

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henri Baptiste Lebasque’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN RED, with Footnotes. #155

Henri Baptiste Lebasque, from 1865 to 1937
PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN RED
Oil on canvas on panel.
49.5 x 33 cm
Private collection

Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva (Petit Palais), Lille (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Nantes, and Paris (Musée d’Orsay).

He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d’Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. Around this time, Lebasque met Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, who later would have a large impact on his work.

Lebasque’s vision was coloured by his contact with younger painters, especially Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, founders of Les Nabis, a group of Intimist painters that first favoured the calm and quietude of domestic subject matter. From his first acquaintance with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Lebasque learnt the significance of a colour theory which stressed the use of complementary colours in shading.

Lebasque was a founding member of the Salon d’Automne in 1903 with his friend Henri Matisse and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Two years later, a group of artists exhibited there including Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Ottmann, Édouard Vuillard, and Matisse. Lebasque also became friends with artists such as Raoul Dufy, Louis Valtat, and Henri Manguin, the last of whom introduced Lebasque to the South of France.

His time in South of France would lead to a radical transformation in Lebasque’s paintings, changing his colour palette forever. Other travels included the Vendée, Normandy, and Brittany.

Lebasque had some commercial success during his lifetime. He worked on the decorations at the theatre of the Champs-Elysées and of the Transatlantique sealiner.

Lebasque died at Cannet, Alpes Maritimes in 1937. More on Henri Lebasque

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