#20th century painter

[artemlegere]

Ophelia with a Blue Wimple in the Water

Artist: Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

Date: 1900-1905

Medium: Oil and and pastel on paper

Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description

Around 1900 young artists exhibited at various independent societies. Les Vingt in Brussels was such an association, of which both James Ensor and Jan Toorop were members and where Redon was invited to show his work. His dreamy, visionary art is part of Symbolism. Here he depicted the fatal drowning of Ophelia, the lover of Hamlet from the Shakespearean tragedy of the same title.

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Powder Play in the Running Ground Square, Mogador, Morocco

Artist: Robert E. Groves (British, 1868-1948)

Date: 1918

Medium: Oil on academy board

Collection: The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

Biography

Robert E. Groves was a British painter who was born in 1866. Robert E. Groves's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 69 USD to 4,364 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,364 USD for A folio of works on paper depicting various subjects, sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge in 2020. The artist died in 1944.

[irishgop]

Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, Cedric Morris, Oil on Canvas, 1928 (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki)

She arrived in London in the spring of 1901 at the age of 32. By June she was sketching in Normandy before decamping to Paris and Italy. Hodgkins became an incessant traveler including within England and the British Empire, among the Low Countries, around the Mediterranean as well France on the Continent, and eventually The United Stares; who embraced “en plein air” sketching and painting.

As World WR I consumed continental Europe, Hodgkins settled in the village of St.Ives, Cornwall, having given up on a studio in Kensington which she had leased but found cold and cramped. She leased it to Cedric Morris and his friend Lett-Haines. They were the first of numerous English artists drawn into her circle. Ten years later Morris would paint the portrait of Hodgkins posted here. A year earlier Morris had introduced Hodgkins to Ben Nicholson, an abstract artist who had assumed the leadership of the Seven & Five Society of avant-garde artists in 1926, and began frequenting St.Ives in Cornwall in 1928.

Hodgkins would join other preeminent artists like Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore in the Seven & Five Society. She exhibited her work in the Society’s 10th and 11th exhibitions and with the Society in their 1932 showing at the Leicester Gallery in London.

In 1938 her only lithograph, “An Arrangement of Jugs,” was produced and published by the Curwen Press of Plainfield, East London along with images done by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and John Piper. Kenneth Clarke, Director of the National Gallery in London had her exhibit at the British Pavilion of the 1939 NEw York World’s Fair, and subsequently she was invited to show at the 22nd Venice Biennale alongside Duncan Grant, Edward Wadsworth, Frank Dobson, Glyn Philpot, and Alfred Munnings.

In November of 1946, six months before her death, 64 of Hodgkins’ paintings and 17 drawings were shown in a critically acclaimed retrospective at the Lefevre Gallery. Francis Hodgkins passed away in May of 1947.

[Abstracted from writing by Jonathan Gooderham & Richard Wolfe, and edited by Grace Alty.]

[constanzarte]

Henri Pierre Picou, Jeunes femmes au bain, 1879

[oldpaintings]

Cat Family by Marie Yvonne Laur (French, 1879-1943)

[solcattus]

Retrospection, c. 1913

By Ernest Haskell

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ John Lavery, Hazel in Rose and Grey (1922)

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[mythical-redon]

By Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

"The Yellow Cape"

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Narcissus

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

Date: 1912

Material: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

John William Waterhouse is very famous for his use of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Most of his pieces express classical mythology, historical subjects, and British poetry. He is known for his great proficiency in oils and watercolors. Narcissus was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1912.

The exquisite oil painting on canvas displays a woman picking flowers in a field. According to the Greek mythology by Ovid, Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. Narcissus had been promised to live to an old age if only he would not look at his reflection, and so he rejected all women who fell in love with him and would not look at himself. Eventually, he was subdued by Echo, a woman who was deeply hurt by his rejection that she caused the Goddess Nemesis to strike Narcissus that he may look at his reflection in a pool and fall in love with himself. Narcissus then looked at his reflection in the pool till he died.

This story gives origin to the narcissus flower, which grew where Narcissus died. The flower grows almost anywhere but prefers well-drained soil with a sunny or light shade environment. The masterpiece of oil on canvas is set in a beautiful wooded landscape, seemingly with a stream and rocky edges. Wildflowers grow there too, and a young lady is bent picking them. Her countenance is downcast in the flowers. In her other hand, she holds a bunch of already picked flowers. She is dressed in a red dress, perhaps to symbolize love or a burning passion. The flowers she is picking are the narcissus flowers. Waterhouse was always keen to use colours, patterns, and simple objects for symbols of the old mythologies. The Narcissus would be no different. This wonderful work of art brings out his genius with the oils on canvas as he seemingly brings every aspect to life as rich in meaning.

Waterhouse was much influenced and inspired by Greek Mythology and works by Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, and Keats, among other famous writers and poets from the time. His most common theme from these sources was femme fatale, the woman who ensnares a man. Most of Waterhouse's subjects were women from Greek Mythology, historical or literary texts. Often, he used live models, family, and friends to be his subjects, creating a great mix of the old and new as he used symbolism from the mythologies around current

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Josef Liesler (1912-2005) — The Creation [oil on canvas, 1976]

[lesbianarthistory]

British painter Gluck at work on a portrait in her studio in Hampstead, London, 4th November 1932.

[galleryofart]

Salome Dancer

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States

Description

Broad, slashing strokes give powerful shape to this defiant female figure standing with parted legs, a pose more athletic - even pugilistic - than seductive. Her oppositional posturing matched the painter’s contrary aesthetic sensibilities. The Realist painter Henri sought a provocative and timely subject in Salome, the biblical figure who served as her mother’s dutiful pawn in facilitating King Herod’s assassination of John the Baptist. By the late nineteenth century Salome had evolved into a far more aggressive and decadent creature, as witnessed in Oscar Wilde’s notorious play of 1891. That Henri adopted the theme in 1909 suggests his desire to capitalize on Salome’s high currency for controversy, which had been confirmed by the New York Metropolitan Opera’s scandal-provoking performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome (based on Wilde’s play) in 1907. The gleam of amusement that enhances Salome’s haughty expression slyly evokes her complicity in constructing Henri’s own reputation as a radical painter.

[irishgop]

Brice Marden iconic work from the Cold Mountain paintings produced towards the close of the 20th Century.

#BriceMarden #abstractart #abstractpainting #AmericanArtist #AmericanPainting #AmericanArt #ModernArt

[constanzarte]

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Evening Mood. 1882

[oldpaintings]

Yuki-Onna, the Lady of the Snow, 1912 by Evelyn Paul (English, 1883--1963)

[solcattus]

A sitting nude, c. 1900

By Victor Karlovich Shtemberg