#charles giron

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Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads (Charles Giron, 1864)

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Charles Giron - Femme aux gants, dite La Parisienne (The Woman with Gloves, known as The Parisian Woman) 1883 oil on canvas,  200 x 91 cm Petit Palais

Ready to go out, La Parisienne wears an afternoon dress whose jet embroidery and velvet applications enhance the intense black. The drapes arranged on the hips are inspired by the 18th century pannier dress, the art of which was then brought up to date by great Parisian collectors.

The presence of a gilded wooden console in the rococo style confirms the citation of the century of Louis XV, while the wall decoration of interlacing prefigures the floral sinuosities of Art Nouveau.

Simone Giron, who donated this large painting to the Petit Palais, was very familiar with this work, which her father, Charles Giron, always kept close to him. She states in the monograph devoted to the painter that he had met his model in Ville-d'Avray near Paris and nicknamed him the Black Diamond. It was this portrait of a woman buttoning her long gloves that Giron presented at the annual exhibition of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1883.

The catalogue of the retrospective exhibition presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern in 1955 gives her the emblematic title of "La Parisienne", which is well suited to this elegant woman with a pretty, mischievous profile, highlighted by the hat covered with black marabou feathers.

Born in Switzerland, Giron, who had trained in Paris in Cabanel's studio, enjoyed his first success at the Salon of 1876. His life was divided between Paris, Geneva and Cannes, then continued in the Swiss Alps where he painted rural scenes and mountain landscapes. His fame spread throughout Europe thanks to the success of his society portraits.

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Femme aux gants, dite La Parisienne, 1883

Charles Giron

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Women in Black – 1880-1929

Philip Alexius de Laszlo (Anglo/Hungarian, 1869-1937) • Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde (1883–1954), Countess of Onslow • 1929

Left: Marlene Dietrich in tuxedo and tophat

Right: Roaring 20s model in a black dress

Charles Giron (French, 1850-1914) • Femme aux gants, dite La Parisienne (The Woman with Gloves, known as La Parisienne) • 1883 • Petit Palaise, Le Musée des Baux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Left: Auguste Toulmouch (French, 1829–1890) • Portrait d'une élégante en tenue de ball • 1889

Right: Herbert James Gunn (British, 1893 - 1964) • Pauline Waiting • 1939 • Royal Academy of Arts

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Lizzy Borden

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“Talking shit with Coatlicue” (2017), flashe on linen, 79 9/10 × 65 inches

Monumental Paintings by Eamon Ore-Giron Translate Cultural Symbols into Vivid Geometries

A mélange of architectural structures, cosmic mappings, South American textiles, hieroglyphics, and Indigenous symbols emerge in vivid, balanced color in Eamon Ore-Giron’s paintings. Often rendered in flashe and mineral paint on large-scale linen canvases, the works are enveloping and visionary, transporting the viewer into Ore-Giron’s flat, geometric vistas.

All images © Eamon Ore-Giron, courtesy of the artist and James Cohan

“Black Medallion XXIII” (2023), mineral paint and flashe on linen, 72 x 72 inches. Photo by Charles White/JWPictures.com

“Night Shade” (2016), flashe on linen, 84 x 60 inches

“Infinite Regress CLXXXIV” (2021), flashe and mineral paint on linen, 120 x 120 inches. Photo by Charles White/JWPictures.com

“Black Medallion XV (Mama-Quilla)’ (2023), mineral paint and flashe on linen, 174 x 300 inches. Photo by Charles White/JWPictures.com

“Infinite Regress CLXXXVIII” (2021), mineral paint and flashe on linen, 120 x 156 inches. Photo by Charles White/JWPictures.com

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Charles Giron (detail)

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The Clouds, Lauterbrunnen Valley (Charles Giron, 1901)

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Esoterica

I° esposizione internazionale d'arte decorativa, Torino, 1902 (Collezione Soleri, Torino) | Leonardo Bistolfi (1859-1933, Italia) |

La Superbia (Mira qui come va senza ritegno la cecitade humana al cieco regno), 1679 (British Museum) | Giovanni Maria Mitelli (1634-1718, Italia)

Pornocratès - La dame au cochon, 1896 (Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium) | Félicien Rops (1833-1898, Belgium) et Albert Bertrand (1852-1912, France)

Los Proverbios, 1817-23 | Francisco Goya (1746-1828, España)

Surreal nude with candle - occult photo, 1950's |cph., Zoltán Glass (1903-1982, Hungary)

Jacobs Dream, 1805 | William Blake (1757-1827, England)

Carnevale | Italico Brass (1870-1943, Italia)

The joyous festival, 1906 ca. | Gaston La Touche (1854-1913, France)

Clouds, Lauterbrunnen Valley, 1901 | Charles Giron (1850-1914, Switzerland)

I cavalieri della nebbia (the knights of the fog), 1896 | Albert Welti

Fairies dances in the woods with faun on gramophone, 1925

Idolo nero (idole noire), 1903 | Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957, Czechia)

The path of silence, 1903 | Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957, Czechia)

Nymphs dancing to Pan's flute | Joseph Tomanek (1889-1974, Czechia - USA)

Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing, 1786 | William Blake (1757-1827, England)

s/t (w/t), 1975 (Sanok Museum, Poland) |  Zdzisław Beksinki (1929-2005, Poland)

AA72, 1972 |  Zdzisław Beksinki (1929-2005, Poland)

Dance on the beach, 1900-02 | Edvard Munch (1863.1944, Swedev)

Summer, 1890's | Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938, USA)

Summer evening, 1947 | Edward Hopper (1882-1967, USA)

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Tsundoku è una parola d’uso colloquiale che si può tradurre come «l’atto di comprare un libro e poi non leggerlo, di solito mettendolo in una pila di altri libri non letti».

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Al parigino Charles Asselineau, autore nel 1860 di un divertimento intitolato L’Inferno del bibliofilo, apparve sotto forma di un demone elegante – redingote con il bavero verde grigiastro, cappello dalla lunga falda inclinato sul naso – per trascinare il suo eroe negli inferi del Lungosenna, tra il girone delle bancarelle e quello delle aste di libri.

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«Compra e non pensarci», gli sussurra affabilmente il demone ogni volta che lo vede tentennare; e cosí, un acquisto dissennato dopo l’altro, il bibliofilo si ritrova carico come una bestia da soma di libri che non ha nessuna intenzione di leggere, e indebitato per piú di trentamila franchi.

Cit. "Il lettore sul lettino. Tic, manie e stravaganze di chi ama i libri"

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Women in Black: 18th through 20th Centuries

Thomas Gainsborough (British/English, 1727-1788) • Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrave, later Duchess of Gloucester • 1763

Antoine-Jean-Joseph-Éléonore Ansiaux (French, 1764-1840) • Portrait of Marie-Denise Smits • c. early 1800s

Charles Giron (Swiss, 1850-1914) • Femme aux gants, dite La Parisienne (Woman with Gloves, Known as La Parisienne) • 1883

William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869-1941) Two Sisters • 1904

William Orpen (British/Irish, 1878-1931) • Miss Kennard • Early 20th century • Academy of Arts , London

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Charles Alexandre Giron

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Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads (1864)

Charles Giron (Swiss, 1850-1914)

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Lizzy Borden

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Charles Alexandre Giron

The Trapeze Artist and the clown